[plt-scheme] Q. about editor<%> internal-locks

Are you accessing the editor from more than one thread?

Robby

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> The stepper is triggering sequence-contract violations, and I've tracked it
> down to a text% that's *internally locked*.  My question is this: what's the
> right way to deal with this? Should I just poll until the text% is no longer
> internally locked?
>
> E.G., something like this?
>
> (let loop ()
>      (cond [(send status-text locked-for-write?)
>             (fprintf (current-error-port) "waiting to try again.\n")
>             (sleep/yield 0.01)
>             (loop)]
>            [else (send status-text delete 0 (send status-text
> last-position))]))
>
>
> ... This seems to work, and it never seems to need to yield more than once,
> but I picked the sleep/yield number out of a hat, and it seems like polling
> is not the right solution here. Perhaps there's a way to queue a sequence of
> operations to be performed when the editor is no longer locked? Perhaps
> these locks are predictable, and there's a way to avoid the write lock in
> the first place?
>
> John
>
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