No runhugs for Macintosh?

Hans Aberg haberg@matematik.su.se
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:36:16 +0100


At 21:43 +0200 1-01-08, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>> This MacHugs version is experimental, because the Hugs kernel isn't
>> thread safe, so if it receives several ApppleEvent's to be executed
>> in parallel or while it is already computing something, something
>> might break. In your case, I think it would work OK, but know you
>> know of it.
>
>Is it otherwise stable?

If one does not send it an AppleEvent it behaves exactly as before, and I
do not think there is any problem if it is not already computing.
Otherwise, you will have to figure it out; that's why it is experimental.

>It seems like it should be sufficient. I'd only need to send it one
>event - gotta learn about that anyway, but an example or two would be
>nice - and perhaps there's a way for the sender to wait for the
>recipient to finish or something.

You will have to figure this out.

>> If you want, I can send you the sources or a binary (but you will
>> have to do the AppleScript programming yourself).
>
>Can I have a binary, please, and I'll struggle with AppleScript by
>myself.

Next email (not posted to this list).

  Hans Aberg