Re: GNOME CVS: gnumeric jody

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico@helixcode.com> writes:
> >  After much wasted thought effort and hair pulling the problem boiled
> >  down to me not realizing that it was bad to request and update for a
> >  canvas item from an update routine even for a different canvas item.
> 
> Yup.  The update cycle is not reentrant.
> 

I wasted a few hours on this once too - Federico a snazzy feature that
would have saved both me and Jody and probably some other programmers
several hours each would be to make the canvas issue a big old
 g_warning("Update called from inside update, you can't do this")

Havoc