From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: GTK and tasking (GNAT)
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 19:29:03 +0100
Date: 2014-05-04T19:29:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lybnvd8kk0.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bsne4cFsavdU1@mid.individual.net
hreba <hreba@terra.com.br> writes:
> On 05/03/2014 06:23 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Questions: is Gtk thread-safe? is Queue_Draw something that should only
>> be called from the Gtk event queue?
>>
>
> I didn't expect that my first excursion into GUI programming (GTK)
> with Ada would confront me with tasking and lead me into the cliffs of
> thread-safety.
It's the same with X11, Tcl/Tk, and probably other such systems. At
least X11 came (comes?) with thread support if you need it.
> I am no software engineer, unfortunately I cannot answer these
> questions.
>
> So I will have a look at Dimitry's library.
A good plan!
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-03 20:30 GTK and tasking (GNAT) hreba
2014-05-03 21:23 ` Simon Wright
2014-05-04 18:10 ` hreba
2014-05-04 18:29 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2014-05-04 22:10 ` hreba
2014-05-04 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-04 18:36 ` hreba
2014-05-04 19:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-04 20:40 ` hreba
2014-05-04 21:07 ` Shark8
2014-05-04 21:32 ` hreba
2014-05-04 21:44 ` Shark8
2014-05-04 21:57 ` hreba
2014-05-05 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-06 12:43 ` hreba
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