[jbosstools-dev] VPE editor

[Max Areshkau]

Snjezana Peco wrote:
> 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
Looks like we can modify  DOM not only from UI thread, for it we should 
use proxy objects (nsIProxyObjectManager), according following
documentation 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaXPCOM:Embedding_Mozilla_in_a_Java_Application_using_JavaXPCOM.