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| -rw-r--r-- | init.go | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | todo.md | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ package ui // Go sets up the UI environment and runs main in a goroutine. // If initialization fails, Go returns an error and main is not called. -// Otherwise, Go does not return to its caller until (unless? TODO) the application loop exits, at which point it returns nil. +// Otherwise, Go does not return to its caller until main does, at which point it returns nil. +// After it returns, you cannot call future ui functions/methods meaningfully. +// (TODO ideally we would want to be able to call ui.MsgBoxError() to report failures to the user, but I would need to figure out how to do this on platforms other than Windows.) // // This model is undesirable, but Cocoa limitations require it. func Go(main func()) error { @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ so I don't forget: - should message box text be selectable on all platforms or only on those that make it the default? important things: -- ui.Go() should exit when the main() you pass in exits - because the main event loop is not called if initialization fails, it is presently impossible for MsgBoxError() to work if UI initialization fails; this basically means we cannot allow initializiation to fail on Mac OS X if we want to be able to report UI init failures to the user with one - figure out where to auto-place windows in Cocoa (also window coordinates are still not flipped properly so (0,0) on screen is the bottom-left) - also provide a method to center windoes; Cocoa provides one for us but |