Re: [Hamlib-developer] serial ports and hamlib

[Joop S. <pa...@de...>]

Op do 27-02-2003, om 00:36 schreef Stephane Fillod:

> The other solution, more common, is to make the application
> multi-threaded (or at least multi-programmed). This way, the GUI main
> loop is not blocked by the delayed reponse. However, the developer has to
> pay attention to proper locking within shared data structures...
> 

Without using multi-threading, you could fork a copy of the main program
and have data transactions take place in the background. The main
program listens on a pipe. Should not be too difficult....

> Now, I cannot see Hamlib to be asynchronous wrt transaction type
> commands in the forseable future...
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephane
> 
> 

Regards,
Joop