[GUI] Another call for votes

Nick Name nick.name@inwind.it
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:53:38 +0100


On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:45:07 +0100
Wolfgang Thaller <wolfgang.thaller@gmx.net> wrote:

> 
>  	4d) First wait and see if 4c is implementable; if not, fall back
>  	to 4b.

Well, I agree on everything and would directly vote for 4b, but instead
I ask: what is the true problem here? If callbacks are serialized,
what's the problem in allowing any thread to call CGA functions? There
is a chance that some windowing system allows this. For example, mutual
exclusion could be required for drawing on a surface, but not for
registering a callback, so while a thread is drawing, another could be
allowed to register callbacks.

Could someone explain what are the problems?

Vincenzo