Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Separate signal emitter and handler in distinct threads

[Brandon A. <all...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:33 PM, koral <ko...@ma...> wrote:

>  * was separating emitter and handler in distinct threads a good idea in
> the first place ? It looks to me that such design would provide a great
> isolation (e.g. running emitter and handler in separate monads)
>  * am I right to conclude that it is impossible to implement such design,
> as suggested by the attached example ?
>

It would be nice, but the design of the underlying gtk library pretty much
prohibits it; it plays very badly with threads in any language.

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