Continue execution of foo with a GUI []DQ created by thread

[norbertjurkiewicz84]

I want to test some GUI functions and make sure they create the appropriate objects.

Say I have these two functions

      ∇ menu X;r
[1]    'M'⎕WC'Menu'
[2]    'M.m1'⎕WC'MenuItem' 'one'
[3]    'M.m2'⎕WC'MenuItem' 'two'
[4]    r←⎕DQ'M'
     ∇

     ∇ test;r;tid                                                                               
[1]    tid←menu&''                                                                              
[2]    ⎕DL 0.25                                                                                 
[3]    ⎕←'menu exists: ',⍕9=⎕NC'#.M'                                                            
     ∇

When I execute 'test', the menu is created in a thread, the execution of test stops until the menu is no longer DQ'd.

What is the best workaround for this?

[Vince|Dyalog]

Hi Norbert,

The popup menu is modal. We do not think that there is any way that you can workaround this.

Regards,

Vince

[ray]

Just a thought.....

"The popup menu is modal. We do not think that there is any way that you can workaround this."

I believe this is true, but I have had a lot of success by, rather than running code is a separate thread, running the code is a separate APL session and passing the results back via files.

The separate session, does not need even to be on the same machine.

I have not ever tried using futures and isolates, but think that might also be worth looking into.

Hope this helps.

Ray