Re: Questions about embedding Guile

[Jesse Marlin]

Marius Vollmer writes:
 > Jesse Marlin <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > I am not sure if this is the right list for this kind of question.
 > 
 > <address@hidden> would also be more appropriate.  I have CCed us
 > there.
 > 
 > > I am considering embedding guile in an application, and have some
 > > questions about doing this.  The application will be using GTK.
 > 
 > Do you know about guile-gtk?

No.  I will have to look into it.  It looks promising.

 > 
 > > I see three possible ways of doing this one of which may not be a
 > > way at all:
 > > 
 > > 1.  Using GTK's event loop for control and processing guile events
 > >     either one at a time or a glob.
 > 
 > Guile does not have events just like C does not have events.  You
 > don't need to do something special to 'keep Guile running'.  However,
 > you need to take the same care in your Scheme programs to keep Gtk
 > running as you need to in C code.
 > 
 > > 2.  Using Guile's event loop (or whatever it is referred to) and
 > >     processing GTK events either one at a time or a glob.
 > 
 > Guile-gtk offers this option...
 > 
 > > 3.  Run Guile in a seperate thread.
 > 
 > and also this.  Guile-gtk can run the Gtk event loop in a separate
 > Guile thread.
 > 
 > Does this help?

Yes, thanks.

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