Re: [jbosstools-dev] VPE editor

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