Re: [gambit-list] Gambit and GUI (GTK+)

Hallo,

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:

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As I didn't find one I think it is probably a good idea to use C to drive the GUI part and gambit for the rest.

It depends on the GUI library.  In many GUIs there is a main event loop that is part of the GUI API.  This can be a problem because that event loop takes over control of the execution, and prevents the Gambit thread scheduler, and timeouts to operate properly.  Single-thread programs should be OK.

GTK+ at least lets you take control of the main loop. But the programmer must call a function to let GTK+ process events, so it must be called often:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/stable/gtk3-General.html#gtk-main-iterat...