Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Does gtk2hs support multithread?

[Brandon S. A. K. <al...@ec...>]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 06:57 , Tim Docker wrote:
> On 24/06/2009, at 4:51 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> gtk+ doesn't support multithread, so gtk2hs doesn't either.  You  
>> can use postGUIAsync to pass a gtk action to the main thread to be  
>> run by the event loop.
>
> Yes. The need to restrict GUI calls to a single thread is pretty  
> common across GUI toolkits, at least in my experience. Is there a  
> (popular) GUI library that doesn't have that restriction?


XLib is not really multithreading-capable.  (It can be built  
multithread-aware, but that doesn't help much.)  xcb supposedly fixes  
this, but I don't know of any popular GUI libraries that have been  
rewritten to take advantage of it.

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