[plt-scheme] mred in console mode on Debian

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 13 12:45:48 EDT 2008

That would of course make the callbacks and the REPL submissions be
evaluated concurrently.

Robby

On 4/13/08, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Apr 13, Robby Findler wrote:
> > Your REPL thread and the thread that handles GUI events are one and
> > the same thread. This means you're blocking the handling of events
> > by the "read" that is sitting waiting for input in the REPL.
> >
> > You should be able to see this by evaluating (yield) a few times in
> > the REPL to handle the queue'd up events.
>
> Another solution is to create the frame in a new eventspace (which
> implies a new thread for the gui events):
>
> (define frame (parameterize ([current-eventspace (make-eventspace)])
>                 (instantiate frame% ("Example"))))
> (define msg (instantiate message% ("Hello World!" frame)))
> (send frame show #t)
>
> --
>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>                   http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!
>


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