Custom CEF Thread?

[me12]

Is there a way to create a custom thread and use CefPostTask() on it? If so, is there an example somewhere?

[magreenblatt]

What are you planning to do with the new thread?

[me12]

I have some heavy computation to do (in C++) once a user clicks some html element.

This is how I am doing it at the moment:

User clicks html element -> http request -> custom scheme handler -> redirect from IO to UI thread -> do computation there and return result in callback.

Since this computation can take a long time and blocks the UI thread meanwhile(no window paint event occurs in that time), I need to do it in another thread.

So here is what I want to do:

User clicks html element -> http request -> custom scheme handler -> redirect from IO to my custom thread -> do computation there and return result in callback.

My custom thread would be initialized when CEF starts and runs(waits) in the background for work to do.

[magreenblatt]

Unfortunately CEF doesn't expose the ability to create new threads currently -- see https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembed ... ail?id=627. You can, however, use any number of existing libraries that support thread creation (for example, OS APIs or boost threads).

[me12]

You can, however, use any number of existing libraries that support thread creation (for example, OS APIs or boost threads).

Thanks! Thats how I am doing it now.