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: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:46:54 -0400
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Brian Lambert wrote:
> Scott, it's not that any one thing is hard to get correct. Arrogantly
> calling someone stupid, as you've done here, doesn't help.
Sounds like you're putting words in Scott's mouth Brian.
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Scott Ribe <email@hidden>wrote:
>
>> 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.
- Alex Zavatone
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