Darwin OpenJDK 7 Binaries - Not Working With SWT

[Michael Franz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Mike Swingler <swingler at apple.com> wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Michael Franz wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> If the runloop is running on Thread 0, can a thread that is not thread 0
> pull events off the runloop by using NSApplication.sharedApplication().
> nextEventMatchingMask() ?  Where events are the keyboard and mouse events.
>
>
> Sorry, nope. I'm pretty sure this method has been tried by the SWT folks.
>

Just so I am clear, there is no easy way for a thread to get the mouse and
keyboard events from Thread 0?

A non-easy way might be to implement a producer/consumer pattern.  Where
thread 0 is the producer and some other thread is the consumer.


>
> How does one 'park' thread 0?
>
>
> pthread_mutex_lock()/pthread_cond_wait()/pthread_cond_signal(). When we
> load the AWT, we simply signal Thread 0, to continue and start pumping the
> event loop. If the AWT never comes up, the thread stays parked indefinitely.
> This is actually just a modification to how the JVM starts when you request
> a custom thread stack size for the main thread.
>

OK, my PThreads book helped clarify this.

Thanks for all your input.

Michael
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