Re: [ROOT] Windows Graphics/GUI - RE: More on Graphics abstraction (was Re: [ROOT] Qt ROOT)

From: Valeri Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 02:07:42 MET


> Peter Lipa writes:
>  >
>  > What Valery, Thane and I are trying to tell you is that the gdklib's in
the
>  > current state are not suitable for root graphics/GUI. The lib is not
>  > threadsafe and crashes at random times.
>
> Gtk/Gdk is thread safe if all GUI related code is restriced to one
> thread.  There are utilities (http://www.humanfactor.com/gpk/) that
> help non-GUI threads make safe GUI calls.
>

 This is very reason of the current and future ROOT Windows problem
 with any GUI (gtk, qt, win32, mfc etc )
 Not all "GUI related code is restricted to one thread".

                         Valeri



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