[Haskell-cafe] Diagrams and GTK

[Michael Oswald]

Hello,

I am currently writing an application which draws the structure of some 
packets with help of the diagrams library directly to a GTK GUI.

Now the packets can have several hundreds of parameters which have to be 
drawn so it takes some seconds to calculate the diagram itself. Of 
course this now blocks the GUI thread, so the basic idea was to put the 
calculation in a separate thread. Unfortunately this doesn't work as 
lazyness kicks in and the final diagram is calculated when it is 
rendered and not evaluated before. Using seq didn't help (because of 
WHNF) and there seems to be no deepseq instance for the diagrams.

Does somebody has an idea on how to speed this up / get the diagram 
evaluated strictly as especially scrolling the DrawingArea is now really 
a pain?

lg,
Michael