Re: XForms: Threads

From: Chris Freeze (cfreeze@alumni.clemson.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 13:16:02 EDT

  • Next message: spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu: "Re: XForms: Threads"

    On 15-Jul-2002 spl@eggshell.ucsd.edu wrote:

    >
    > As far as threads and the GLcanvas go, if you're just updating the
    > canvas itself, then I don't see a problem -- as long as you have the
    > proper GLXContext, you should have no difficulties. For example, in
    > an application of mine I create texture maps, polygons, and display
    > lists in a background thread and use them in the main thread with no
    > problems.
    >
    > Since the GLcanvas is basically just an X Window with not much in the
    > way of embellishment, you should be able to do whatever you want to it
    > from a thread.
    >
    > X itself and, hence, XForms can also be multithreaded through
    > functions which were added several years ago in X11R6 but that doesn't
    > seem to be an issue here.

    I noticed when I first started adding threads to XFMail that when trying to
    update the forms through a second thread an error in xlib would (almost) be
    reported. I've since disabled it in the default compile. I'll retry later
    tonight and see if this is still an issue with 1.0RC4.

    -- 
    Regards,
    

    Chris

    By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

    ----- Chris Freeze Email: cfreeze@alumni.clemson.edu Web: http://www.cfreeze.com


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