1/* Part of XPCE --- The SWI-Prolog GUI toolkit 2 3 Author: Jan Wielemaker and Anjo Anjewierden 4 E-mail: J.Wielemaker@cs.vu.nl 5 WWW: http://www.swi-prolog.org/packages/xpce/ 6 Copyright (c) 2009-2015, University of Amsterdam 7 VU University Amsterdam 8 All rights reserved. 9 10 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12 are met: 13 14 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 15 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 16 17 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 18 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in 19 the documentation and/or other materials provided with the 20 distribution. 21 22 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 23 "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 24 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 25 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 26 COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 27 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 28 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 29 LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 30 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 32 ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 33 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 34*/ 35 36:- module(pce_dispatch, 37 [ pce_dispatch/1, % +Options 38 pce_end_dispatch/0, 39 pce_call/1 % :Goal 40 ]). 41:- use_module(library(pce)). 42 43:- meta_predicate 44 pce_call( ).
60:- predicate_options(pce_dispatch/1, 1,
61 [ pass_to(system:thread_create/3, 3)
62 ]).
pce
that takes care of the XPCE message
loop. This predicate has no effect if dispatching is already on
another thread than the main
. The loop can be ended using
pce_end_dispatch/0.71pce_dispatch(Options) :- 72 with_mutex(pce_dispatch, pce_dispatch_(Options)). 73 74pce_dispatch_(_) :- 75 pce_thread(pce), 76 !. 77pce_dispatch_(Options) :- 78 thread_self(Me), 79 thread_create(pce_dispatcher(Me), _, 80 [ alias(pce), 81 debug(false) 82 | Options 83 ]), 84 thread_get_message(pce_dispatch). 85 86:- dynamic 87 end_pce_dispatcher/1. 88 89pce_dispatcher(Origin) :- 90 set_pce_thread, 91 thread_self(Me), 92 retractall(pce:pce_thread(_)), 93 assert(pce:pce_thread(Me)), 94 thread_send_message(Origin, pce_dispatch), 95 set_prolog_flag(debug_on_error, false), % avoid the debugger 96 set_prolog_flag(generate_debug_info, true), % Started with false 97 repeat, 98 catch(pce_dispatch, E, true), 99 ( var(E) 100 -> true 101 ; print_message(error, E) 102 ), 103 retract(end_pce_dispatcher(Sender)), 104 !, 105 thread_send_message(Sender, end_pce_dispatcher). 106 107end(Requester) :- 108 assert(end_pce_dispatcher(Requester)).
114pce_end_dispatch :-
115 thread_self(Me),
116 in_pce_thread(end(Me)),
117 thread_get_message(end_pce_dispatcher),
118 set_pce_thread,
119 thread_self(Me),
120 retractall(pce:pce_thread(_)),
121 assert(pce:pce_thread(Me)).
129pce_call(Goal) :- 130 in_pce_thread(Goal). 131 132:- public start_dispatch/0. 133 134start_dispatch :- 135 ( current_prolog_flag(xpce_threaded, true), 136 current_predicate(pce_dispatch/1) 137 -> pce_dispatch([]) 138 ; true 139 )
Run XPCE in a separate thread
This module allows one to run XPCE in a separate thread
pce
. This is especially nice if xpce is only used to support the SWI-Prolog development tools because it ensures that the tools remain responsive while the main thread executes long-running goals.This module can be deactivated by setting the flag
xpce_threaded
:*/