From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:50:16+09:00
Subject: Re: DRAW 1280, 1024

David Vallner wrote:

> Martin DeMello wrote:
>> I think all the GUI toolkits insist on running their own mainloop,
>> which plays badly with IRB
>> 
> 
> Spawn off inna thread, then jump through event posting hoops?

Not in Ruby, unfortunately. Ruby's threads implementation doesn't work. I
have lately torn out my hair trying to get Ruby threads to play nice with
the main event loop in GUI-based applications.

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