Re: [Texmacs-dev] Drawing mode: eukleides?

[Henri Lesourd]

Henri Lesourd wrote:

> > Wow, ... what if you could link the drawing to a program that does the
> > math and draws several frames as the system changes?
> This is something you can probably do right now with a Scheme
> program using a timer, that would update the drawing when
> the clock ticks (although I don't know exactly if timers
> are available in Guile, but as far as I can remember,
> they implement UNIX signals, so you could perhaps
> use SIGALRM). To do this, you would perhaps also
> need to run a fresh thread, it depends. In such
> a context, it remains to be seen if the Guile
> interpreter implements an SRFI for threads. Its
> quite possible, but perhaps not ; anyway, another
> solution which is always feasible (but a little
> bit crap) would be to implement a plugin in C
> that starts the thread you need for running the
> beat of your clockticks.
I had a look on :
<<
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-18/srfi-18.html
>>

, and it appears that thread support comes with SRFI #18.

I then had a look at :
<<
http://www.glug.org/docbits/guile/1.4.x/SRFI-Support.html#SRFI%20Support
http://www.glug.org/docbits/srfi-watch.html
>>

and uh, they seem to say that SRFI #18 is **not** implemented
in Guile. But the strange thing is that on :
<<
http://www.glug.org/docbits/guile/1.4.x/Threads.html#Threads
>>

, there is something available for threads. I tried, and in
effect, using the appropriate (use-modules), I can currently
get the (make-thread) macro.

But unfortunately, it remains definitely impossible to
have any access to (call-with-new-thread), which is the
basic thread primitive :-(.

So is some thread support available in Guile ? I don't know.

Any information about that would be welcomed :-).


Best, Henri