I am trying to write an external that uses glut. But I have hit a stumbling block. I am not able to use glutMainLoop without entering into some king of cpu sucking vortex that halts all Pd functions. I know this is a problem with the way Pd/tkl handles events. Has anyone figure out a simple way around this? I tried to look at the Gem source code but there is too much going on in there for me to get a simple solution. Is there a straight forward solution out there?
Thanks, Alain
Hi,
On 7/30/07, Nose Hair nosehair911@bellsouth.net wrote:
I am trying to write an external that uses glut. But I have hit a stumbling block. I am not able to use glutMainLoop without entering into some king of cpu sucking vortex that halts all Pd functions. I know this is a problem with the way Pd/tkl handles events. Has anyone figure out a simple way around this? I tried to look at the Gem source code but there is too much going on in there for me to get a simple solution. Is there a straight forward solution out there?
If you are able to use the "freeglut" implementation, it supports a function called glutMainLoopEvent which you can use instead. Failing that, I think the only solution is to run it in a thread, but that brings up all sorts of other issues.
http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/docs/api.php#EventProcessing
(note: i haven't checked the GEM code too closely so I don't know if this is what it uses..)
Steve
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