- think about the statusbar/multithreading. Three shared TVars: windowTitle :: TVar String workspace :: TVar Int statusText :: TVar String Three threads: Main thread, handles all of the events that it handles now. When necessary, it writes to workspace or windowTitle Status IO thread, the algorithm is something like this: forever $ do s <- getLine atomic (writeTVar statusText s) Statusbar drawing thread, waits for changes in all three TVars, and redraws whenever it finds a change.