Re: synchronize gui's debug actions with the octave core thread (bug #41139)

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 01/12/2014 09:01 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Torsten,
>
> I see you added a mutex-protected queue to make the debugger more
> robust. I like the queue and making the debugger more robust has been a
> goal I worked on. I would like to point out that with the queue you
> added this is getting very close to what I did with the prototype
> "background queue". It's not too difficult to add such a thing.
> Foreground queue is the existing commands visible to the user (e.g.,
> typing at the command line) and background queue would be commands not
> visible to the user (initiated by the GUI in response to debugger
> action, for example).

Or I suppose there could simply be just one queue having an option that 
it be processed visibly or not.  But maybe there's a good reason to keep 
such queues separate if one type were to have a priority over the other.

Dan