Re: multithreading with gtkada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

evangeli wrote:
> hi all
> 
> it seems that gtk doesnt support multi-threading (see 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part7/section-15.html).
> My problem is the following :
> my app opens a windows, which on the show event launch a task wich makes 
> a long computation. The window also contains a cancel button which can 
> be pressed to abort this task.The problem is that i would like this task 
> to make X-Call, and that is apparently not possible and give me 
> unavoidably the following error message:
> ----------------------------------------------
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x9fe)!
> ----------------------------------------------
> i havent found any solution which doesn't use several tasks.

I got similar problems with my small toy application. You can see how I
did it. Perhaps it works for you:

   URL  =>  http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95/Klokka/

It is a small app and I have commented the Tasking part.

Regards
Preben Randhol
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