Re: [g-a-devel]SPI_eventIsReady and SPI_nextEvent

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:39, Mario Lang wrote:
> "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM> writes:
> 
> > Bill Haneman is the person who can asnwer this question. Unfortunately he is on 
> > holidays for a few weeks.
> 
> I've seen Bill seems to be back, so I would like to reask
> the same question.  Will those two functions eventually get implemented
> soonish, or are there fundamental problems preventing this?

Well, at-spi is intended for use by programs which use the glib main
loop.  I would strongly urge you to look for ways to do this first, it
would be better if it is technically possible.  Note that these
libraries are not known to be thread-safe either.

- Bill

> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >> What are the chances of those two functions eventually
> >> getting implemented in AT-SPI?  The application I am currently
> >> writing has real problems integrating the SPI_event_main loop.  I tried
> >> running the loop in a separarate thread in Guile, but due
> >> to some yet undetermined interaction between pthreads and Guile's qthreads,
> >> the SPI_event_main loop still blocks the whole system.  It would make
> >> it a lot easier for me if I could just poll for pending events
> >> every once in a while.
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Thanks,
> >>   Mario
> 
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