Re: [Vala] idea: do later w/ g_idle_add

["Juerg Billeter" <j bitron ch>]

On Tue, March 18, 2008 12:22, Vlad Grecescu wrote:
> While reading through JavaFX's docs, i kind of liked the idea of
>
> do later {
>     ....
> }
>
> (here's the link:
> https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_Programming_Language.html#do_later)
>
> I suppose java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater functionally the same as GLibs
> g_idle_add () with a function returning FALSE.

I'm interested in adding language support for asynchronous methods, which
might help in more situations. However, this might have to wait after Vala
1.0, at most we could add it as experimental language extension, if
someone has time to implement it.

Juerg