Re: [Q] Why is the threading and UI updating designed to be done only on a main thread?
Re: [Q] Why is the threading and UI updating designed to be done only on a main thread?
- Subject: Re: [Q] Why is the threading and UI updating designed to be done only on a main thread?
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:43:03 -0600
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:09 PM, JongAm Park wrote:
> In other words, the thread function may want to update UI like inserting a log message to a text field on a window and thus asking main thread to do so, and main thread is waiting to acquire a lock or waiting using "Join", then either the main thread and the other thread can't progress.
Ouch. If you think that's a problem, then trust me, you would really make a mess with multiple UI threads.
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