Re: [FR-devel] We have a (GUI) problem...

[Laurent Julliard]

Rich Kilmer wrote:

> I've been doing some simple tests with GUI toolkits.  We may have a problem
> with threading and the UI.  Since Ruby does not support native threading,
> the UI tookits I have tried starve other threads.  As a matter of fact, I
> can't get FOX to start in anything but the main thread (it crashes on
> Win32).
>
> We need further study on this...if anyone have specific expereince with
> this, or has time to work on it would be great.
>
> -Rich


As a follow-up on this item, I have just installed FOX and FXRuby 189 on 
my Linux laptop and while looking at the examples given in FXRuby I 
noticed that the groupbox.rb example is using a Ruby thread to update 
the clock in the lower right corner. On my Linux machine this example 
works perfectly ok.

Does it work on Win32 as well? And if so how is this example different 
from the approach you have taken?

Laurent