On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > For the project I'm working on I'm running WebKit2 on Windows. I have it > spinning up fine, but if I spin up multiple WebKit windows on multiple GUI > threads I get alternately segfaults, null returns from WKContextCreate(), and > sometimes everything working fine *except right click*. Windows supports > having an arbitrary number of message loops running at once, and if I comment > out the calls that instantiate webkit windows into my host windows the host > windows run fine, so I'm looking to thread-safety in WebKit2 as the culprit. > Does it exist? > > I found > http://webkit.sed.hu/blog/20110120/webkit2-memory-consumption-process-models-vol-1 > which seems to imply that indeed, no, WebKit2 is meant to be run on one gui > thread at a time (at least, within a single process), but if I could get a > clear pointer to somewhere that says NO THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE my life would be > simplified ever so much.
WebKit2's API is only meant to be used from a single thread. It seems quite likely that your problems are due to making WebKit2 API calls from multiple threads. -Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
