Guile threading

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Keep in mind that most of the gnucash code is NOT thread safe!
>
> The whole reason I was thinking about threading was to be able to put progress
> bars directly in the QIF importer druid pages, rather than using popup dialogs
> (gnc_progress_dialog_xxx functions). I thought I could kick off a long-running
> Guile thread, then check its status occasionally and show the user how things
> are progressing. But threading doesn't seem to be an option.
>
> So maybe while Guile is running, it could just call a progress reporting
> function once in a while that updates the druid's widgets. Are there existing
> GnuCash functions that support progress bars and let me specify my own
> progress bar widget?
>
> (My guess would be "no", since the splash screen would seem to be a similar
> case, and it appears to have needed to supply custom functions for updating
> its progress bar.)

Um, I'm fairly sure we have guile wrappers for progress bar
reporting functions.  Indeed, I'm pretty sure the QIF importer already
uses them for reading/parsing QIF files!  Search for gnc-progress-dialog
in qif-import/*.scm

> Cheers,
> Charles

-derek

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