[jbosstools-dev] VPE editor

[Snjezana Peco]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> Doing it in a seperate thread is a different enhancement I think, but definitly
>>> also worth it. The current idea is just to not update on every stroke since users
>>> would normally write more than one letter and while he is typing the visual view
>>> does not need to be updated 100% live (especially not when its update seem to be
>>> so slow in special cases).
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have tried to separate of visual editor update on user input into
>> different thread(you can see commnets for JBIDE-675),
>> and I founded following problems:
>> 1) Modifications of nsIDOM* nodes can be done only in UI thread, if it's
>> done in non UI thread it's crashes a
>> eclipse.
>> 2)If we update nodes in UI thread, the user input thread are suspended.
>>     
>
> Too bad ;( Do we know why there is this limitation ?
>
>   

Mozilla requires DOM modifications to be done in the UI thread. It is 
possible to split the VPE action (notifyChanged) into the UI and non-UI 
part.
This wouldn't be trivial.

Snjeza