Good point about GDI, I wasn't aware about that restriction. Windows does have fibers which are basically coroutines - I wonder if a separate Windows implementation could use those. I don't see any such restriction for fibers.
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:58:01PM +0100, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Chris: > >> With a proper implementation this should be indistinguishable from > >> coroutines, including to wx. > > This is your opinion not mine, I'm not sure. Again, read the paragraph about > secondary threads: > http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/overview_thread.html > > "[..] under Win32 a thread can only access GDI objects such as pens, brushes, > device contexts created by itself and not by the other threads [..]" > > One of the reasons why they strongly recommend "no secondary threads call GUI > functions". > > -- > > However, if you can ensure that the coroutines never call GUI functions, > threads should be a nice alternative. I remember Orson has written, that this > should be possible. Maybe he can answer the question if this restriction is > still acceptable. Then I could rescue my implementation from my backups. > > Thanks, > Torsten > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
