Re: GUI updates do not show even from separate thread

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> we get the expected behaviour. You could use this code for now to get
> your application working correctly under GNUstep. But on MacOSX none of
> this hacks should be needed. Riccardo, could you please try to run FTP
> with that runloop line removed on a Mac and report back whether the
> progress bar gets filled smoothly?

I am pretty sure that I checked and and it is not needed, I will check 
again. I mean the whole runlloop call: once I had a background thread, 
the GUI updated properly without tricks. The call was needed when FTP 
was non-threaded.


> To me this looks like we are having an issue with background threads
> that run their own runloop. As this is an area where I am not very
> familiar it would be great if Richard could take over.

However, it used to wok (with the runloop call) on GNUstep. I have the 
proof in older screenshots which show the progress bar working (and I 
also remember that it used to). So we changed behaviour.

Riccardo