🚀 go-pugleaf

ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) wrote:

>I don't think you'd have to restart any apps.  As far as I can tell, if 
>the restart generates some kind of RestartedBlueBox event, you can 
>trivially redraw everything.  All your data are safely tucked away in 
>protected threads.  All your window pointers are tucked away in protected 
>threads.  And your program status can be tucked away in a protected 
>thread.  Everything is linked, so you'll always know how to find anything 
>you need.  Then go through it and, one at a time, call the functions you 
>used to draw them in the first place.  Replace the old window handles 
>with the new ones.

Doesn't this assume that all apps run only their UI in the Blue Box? I
was wondering if any apps would actually work this way and you seem to
be assuming that *all* of them will.