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cl-cffi-gtk is a Lisp binding to the GTK+ 3 library.

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Running cl-cffi-gtk on macOS

jmercouris opened this issue · comments

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Hi, I wanted to add the following notes which may help in the documentation for how to run some widgets on macOS.

macOS generally requires drawing from the main thread. The cl-cffi-gtk within-main-loop macro runs on the GTK thread rather than the main thread. This works most of the time, but for some special widgets like the WebKitGTK+ widget, this will not work.

If you manually invoke gtk-main from the cl-cffi-gtk package you can control on which thread things happen (instead of using within-main-loop) you can then force all cl-cffi-gtk operations to happen on the main SBCL thread and then rendering happens correctly.