[racket] Asynchronously inserting text to editor%

The real issue here is that the implementation of text% is not
thread-safe (nor are the GUI controls generally speaking). So when you
modify them from two threads, strange things can happen.

Robby

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Dmitry Cherkassov
> <dcherkassov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. I've found that `disable`-ing canvas of text editor
>> when inserting works too. But with downside that you cant select anything or
>> move the cursor when bulk of text strings are inserted.
>
> Well, that's why I said that you're much better off just doing the
> callback -- even if you disable things, you're likely to get the same
> problem later on.  OTOH, doing a callback is easy, and can be done from
> a different thread with no issues, since the actual addition happens
> when the GUI is prepared to do so.
>
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