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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada to Motif bindings
Date: 2000/04/11
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kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> But the single-threaded nature of X is an issue in any programming
> language.  If you have a requirement to use multiple execution
> contexts in parallel, you better do it in separate processes,
> regardless of programming language.

We had success using separate Display contexts, one per execution
thread that needed to interact with X. As I remember, one was for
standard GUI (buttons etc), the other drew a labelled plan display of
some sort. Just need to pass window IDs around ..