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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GTK and tasking (GNAT)
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 19:29:03 +0100
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Date: 2014-05-04T19:29:03+01:00
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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!