RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:29 -0700, Robert Ohannessian wrote:

> 
> OpenGL solves this by forcing each thread to draw to different GL
> contexts (undefined behavior occurs if you violate this rule). GL
> functions, before doing any of their work, first look up which thread
> they're in and which context is current for that thread. They then apply
> their state / command to that context.
> 

I think Allegro should do that as well. So, select_bitmap() (or
display/context) would not set a global target bitmap, but a per-thread
target bitmap (display/context).

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Elias Pschernig