Re: LuaJava: unable to start new thread

[Andreas Rozek <A.Rozek@...>]

Hello Christian,

>I rather prefer a big fat warning over withdrawing these examples
>altogether. I found the Lua console from the AWT example supremely
>useful for scriptiong OOo.

That's true - so a warning is indeed preferrable

>> have to think over it.  Nevertheless,  the lack of  thread-
>> safety is a very severe restriction of LuaJava...
>
>Agreed. Perhaps, as a workaround, you could use an approach similar to
>the one that Swing uses with the invokeLater() method and related
>ones.

Well, for my purpose (a multimedia- and networking-capable
scripting environment) this would be too much effort. I'll
follow a completely different approach (which does without
Lua, though: I had JavaScript (Rhino) as an alternative) 

Thanks for your effort and your ideas!

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