[Mono-dev] [Mono-winforms-list] Is System.Drawing (libgdiplus) thread-safe?

[Rafael Teixeira]

AFAIK, most classes/methods in System.Drawing (as well as most of the
System.* namespaces) are marked as non-threadsafe.

See msdn docs for each class/method to be sure, as we follow suit.

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Alex Shulgin <
alexander.shulgin at yessoftware.com> wrote:

> Alex Shulgin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is System.Drawing by any means thread-safe?
> >
> > Can I create some threads, create a Graphics object in each of them and
> > then work with it from within that thread?  Is this supposed to work or
> > am I doing something really stupid here?
>
> Oh, forgot to mention that I've tested this on both 2.4 and latest
> available 2.6.  The results are the same.
>
> --
> Alex
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