Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rasterising an SVG in a worker thread

On 9/26/07, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:

I'm just continuing to work on the native win32 file dialogs. Things are coming along, slowly, but I've stumbled into yet another problem. In order to render a preview of the selected file I need to be able to rasterise an SVG file. Because of the way the windows file dialog works, it has to be executed from a worker thread - not from the main UI thread, otherwise the rest of inkscape locks up in the background.

So what is the problem with locking Inkscape while a file dialog is open? AFAIK these dialogs are modal anyway.