On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:43:09 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> First, do the difficulties you've had integrating eventspaces with >> modern toolkits suggest that perhaps eventspaces should be designed >> differently? > > Not as far as I can tell. The fundamental problem is being able to use > some GUI elements (e.g., DrRacket's GUI) while a callback associated > with another set of GUI elements might be blocked. GUI toolkits like > Cocoa and Gtk2 don't support that in any simple way that I see
What do other GUI programs that run untrusted code do to handle this? For example, Firefox (and Chrome and Safari) runs untrusted JavaScript - can that just lock up the GUI? Or alternatively, what does Eclipse do (SWT, Eclipse's toolkit, is based on gtk)? -- sam th samth at ccs.neu.edu
