On Nov 30, 2007 3:06 PM, Kevin Van Vechten <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
>
> > On Nov 29, 2007 4:36 AM, Ben Byer <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> /* Initially I ran the X server on the main thread, and received
> >> events on the second thread. But now we may be using Carbon,
> >> that needs to run on the main thread. (Otherwise, when it's
> >> prebound, it will initialize itself on the wrong thread)
> >>
> >> grr.. but doing that means that if the X thread gets scheduled
> >> before the main thread when we're _not_ prebound, things fail,
> >> so initialize by hand. */
> >
> > What does "we may be using Carbon" mean? In what sense is Xquartz
> > using Carbon?
>
> I'll hazard a guess that this comment was made by an early Xquartz
> contributor (external to Apple) who was unfamiliar with the high-level
> Mac OS X frameworks.
>
> Xquartz, like any GUI app, _does_ use Carbon. (This is also true for
> "pure-Cocoa" apps, since Cocoa and Carbon share a lot of fundamentals.)
Ok, that's what I thought. I was confused because I thought they were
talking about some strange "problematic" mixture of Cocoa and Carbon.
Thanks,
-n8
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>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
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