[Caml-list] Graphics and Thread (was: Two severe limitations in Graphics module)

[Berke Durak <berke@altern.org>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:55:17PM +0200, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> Berke Durak <berke@altern.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:06:42AM +0200, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> > > 1/You may have two threads, the first will watch the keyboard
> > > (wait_next_event), the second will update puzzle tiles positions, both will
> > > send events to your main loop, that will process these events.
> > 
> > I will try to do this, thanks. I just tried ocamlsdl (I get a weird
> > relocation error at exit) and ocamlsvga (my S3 card isn't fully
> > supported), so I have no other choice.
> 
> This is just an idea :)

Hmm, I've just tried it, it doesn't work, seems that Thread and Graphics
don't mix very well, if one thread calls Graphics.wait_next_event, others
get blocked too. I'm recomping Ocaml with native threads now to see if
that will help !
--
Berke

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