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From: "Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>
Subject: Re: X Motif in Gnat Ada Application
Date: 2000/05/02
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Stanley R. Allen <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com> wrote in message
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> Ted Dennison wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if its any better today, but back in the paleozoic era when
> > I was doing Motif work, it was definitely *not* thread/task safe. If you
> > wanted to use Motif with multitasking programs, you had to be sure that
> > only one task actually made all the X/Motif calls; sort of a Motif
server.
> >
>
> My understanding is that "thread safety" was the major feature
> which distinguished X11R6 -- the final revision of X.
>
> --
> Stanley Allen
> mailto:Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com


It is true that X CAN be built so that it is thread safe, however Motif is
still not
thread safe. This does not mean that you can not use tasks but you need to
make sure only
one task ever directly interacts with the GUI...I bit of a pain...