Re: Modifying CAPI elements in multi-threaded program

Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> The CAPI User Guide says that "a displayed CAPI element should only be
> modified in its own thread." I'm currently writing my first "real"
> CAPI application (so this may be a dumb question) and I have a
> situation where I intend to start a (background) thread by pressing a
> push button. I want this background thread to be able to modify a
> display-pane or something similar so there's always a line somewhere
> in my GUI telling me the current status of the background thread.
> 
> How am I supposed to do that without violating the rule cited above?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Edi.

Uh, sorry, it was late yesterday. I should have heard about the
cookbook before... :)

  <http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/process.html#capi>

Cheers,
Edi.