On 02/06/2014 11:54 AM, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
You see that as shortcomings. Most others (even widgetset developers) see
thread-safe GUIs as nonsense without real benefit, else they would be available.
I think we can agreee to disagree.
This is a funny opinion indeed.
- we did a project in a standard (single-threaded GUI) way
- with enhanced demand of the customers this did not work decently
(GUI getting sluggish)
- we found that using a multi-threaded GUI would solve the problem
- we found that this is not possible due to shortcomings of the
underlying system
- we did a redesign with multiple applications and found that this
does work fine on exactly the same hardware
- it was a huge overhead regarding the software design, the effort to
transfer data between the multiple applications, and RAM demand
- hence it is obviously a shortcoming that might be solved by the
designers of the infrastructure system
- I agree that this is only relevant in a rather small range of
applications. But this does not deny that it is a shortcoming
nonetheless, as solving it would not impose any disadvantages for anyone.
-Michael
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