Is it possible to use wxMutex->Lock() in an event handler? Since it’s the main program thread (gui thread) it can’t sleep right?
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Is it possible to use wxMutex->Lock() in an event handler? Since it’s the main program thread (gui thread) it can’t sleep right?
You certainly can – it’s not going to blow up your computer or melt your hard drive or cause demons to fly out of your nostrils if you try.
That said, doing anything on your UI thread that might block is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
So while you technically can, you really shouldn’t.