2011/7/6 Donn Cave <d...@avvanta.com>: > Quoth =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Lehel?= <illiss...@gmail.com>, > ... >> Stated another way: I suspect most GUI libraries don't really actually >> care that you only execute GUI code from the main OS thread, as much >> as they care that only one (thread-unsafe) GUI function is being >> called at any given time. If you only ever call GUI code from the same >> (main) OS thread, that fulfills this requirement, because an OS thread >> is only capable of running one library function at a time; >> alternately, if you only ever call GUI code from the same Haskell >> thread, that also fulfills this requirement, because one Haskell >> thread is also only capable of running one library function at a time, > > I thought in the present case, the program now works when compiled, > but fails when run in GHCi, and we believe that the only difference > here is that GHCi took the main thread and put the program, and hence > the GUI, in some other thread? > > I.e., your requirement is indeed met, per the second alternative, > but the program still fails, because this library really does need > to execute in the initial "main" program thread.
Hmm. That does seem like a pretty strong "disproof". I wonder if my hypothesis is wrong in general, or if this particular library does in fact have other requirements (thread-local storage or such) (and in this case whether my other assumption was wrong and this is actually the usual case), or if there's something else we're missing. > > Donn > -- Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe