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.  

I see that I didn't directly answer it in my reply...

Will those two functions eventually get implemented

[I expect so]

> soonish, 

[ah, not for 2.4.X, maybe 2.6].

or are there fundamental problems preventing this?

It's going to be nontrivial, I think, so we've punted it for now since
we're trying to clear the stoppers for "mainstream" gtk+/gnome apps.
Sorry if this presents you with some problems in the meantime.  Can
Guile not run the glib mainloop at all ?

regards,

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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