[Gtk-sharp-list] Creating critical section for unhandled exception handler

[Styne]

Christopher David Howie wrote:
> 
> What member of what class are you attaching your event handler to?
> 

I am adding it to ExceptionManager.UnhandledException like it says on 
http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpNewInVersion2x
http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpNewInVersion2x 


Christopher David Howie wrote:
> 
> Run() blocks in that it does not return until the dialog is closed.  But
> it must call the GLib main loop again, because this loop is responsible
> for dispatching GTK+ events.  In other words, if it did not re-enter the
> main loop, the dialog would not be able to respond to events.  So this
> is the possible execution path I see:
> 
> * GLib main loop.
> ** Unhandled exception handler, calls Dialog.Run().
> *** Dialog.Run() sets up the dialog, calls main loop to process events.
> **** GLib main loop.
> ***** Unhandled exception handler.
> ****** ...
> 

Ah ok that makes more sense. I take it that has something to do with why the
dialogs aren't drawn properly until I force a UI event to occur.


Christopher David Howie wrote:
> 
> It sounds like you need a more sophisticated mechanism to handle the
> case where exceptions may be thrown while the dialog is shown.  You
> might consider using a Queue<> to hold exceptions that have been thrown.
>  Additionally, you should be very careful to catch every possible
> exception that might occur in your UnhandledException handler so as to
> prevent an infinite loop.
> 

Yes I will have to rethink this a bit more and decide exactly what behavior
I want.

Well that pretty much answers my question now. Thanks!
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