From: William Chesters <williamc@dai.ed.ac.uk>
To: Don Syme <dsyme@microsoft.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: threads & OCamlTK
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:57:30 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903171557.PAA06380@toy.william.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39ADCF833E74D111A2D700805F1951EF0F00BA7A@RED-MSG-06>
Don Syme writes:
> William Chesters writes:
>
> > > And, on a vaguely related topic, is it possible to use threads with
> > > programs that also use OCamlTK? I know Tk is not threadsafe, but if
> > > only one thread is calling Tk functions, then perhaps it's still OK?
>
> > No, `Tk.mainLoop' blocks the whole process.
>
> Hmm... it seems not to, under Windows NT/bytecode. Maybe this is because
> Tk.mainLoop gets linked against a non-blocking library of code under
> Windows.
Aha, it works for me too under Linux with native code/pthreads. I
still have the test program from months ago which supposedly
demonstrated the opposite ... and it works too! Oh well :-).
Probably wrong link options or something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-17 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-17 15:02 Don Syme
1999-03-17 15:57 ` William Chesters [this message]
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1999-03-16 17:32 William Chesters
1999-03-15 15:05 Don Syme
1999-03-16 17:18 ` Francois Rouaix
1999-03-16 17:42 ` Jun P. Furuse
1999-03-22 18:39 ` Trevor Jim
1999-03-22 20:04 ` William Chesters
1999-03-23 16:08 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-03-23 15:07 ` Jerome Vouillon
1999-03-24 17:27 ` William Chesters
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