Re: per thread x connection

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ulrich Czekalla <ulrich czekalla utoronto ca> writes:
> We need an x connection per display in order to facilitate the implementation
> of sendmessage across processes. Basically we need an event/signal loop for each
> thread. This simplifies things, allowing individual threads to wait on their
> X connection for new events. 
> 
> In addition to a per-thread connection, Wine would need to be in charge of 
> waiting for events when idling. So we need some way of polling on behalf of
> gtk.

GTK won't do this; GTK can poll on behalf of WINE though. ;-)

> The more I think about it, it seems like it will be a lot of work.
> 

Yes. What does it achieve? Doesn't WINE implement MFC or whatever?

Havoc