[slime-devel] updating slime during idle time

[Chris Baker]

Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> writes:

> Chris Baker <electro at 1939worldsfair.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Slimers,
>>
>> I've recently started running slime with clisp on windows.  This works
>> great for most things, but now I'm starting to do windows gui
>> programming, and windows wants each program to have it's own event
>> loop, which interferes with slime, which has its own server update
>> loop.  Unfortunately, clisp is single threaded, so I can only update
>> windows events or update slime requests at a given time.  Is there a
>> function I can call periodically to process slime requests at idle
>> time?  Or alternately, can I add a hook to swank so I can pump windows
>> events when slime isn't processing anything?
>
> There's little special support for this.
>
> You could call something like 
>
>   (process-available-input (connection.socket-io *connection*)
>                            #'read-from-emacs)

This works great, thanks :)

cbb

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