On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:31 PM, David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2011, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> to correctly handle GUI events you need to use the original thread >> allocated to your process to check for events and to call the Cocoa >> framework functionality. >> >> I looked at the threading documentation in Control.Concurrent for GHC and >> it's not clear to me if this is even possible with GHC without restricting >> to the non-threaded RTS. > > The 'main' thread in GHC is the bound thread initially allocated to the > process.
That doesn't seem to be the case for GHCI. > You can easily establish an event-loop in the main thread, and feed > events from other threads. Consider using Control.Concurrent.Chan. > If you need feedback, things get a bit trickier because you'll have special > cases based on whether you're starting in the main thread. Yes, that might work for compiled programs. What about GHCI? Jason _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
