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- To: "Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] END_OF_MAIN removal patch for msvc
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:52:40 -0700
On November 18, 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2008, at 08:45, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > Wait, didn't allegro specifically go to an event loop and whatnot
> > to get
> > around this little problem? al_init() initializes any internal lib
> > state, and
> > the event loop gives allegro time to "do its thing" when needed
> > without having
> > an explicit al_update_allegro(); api.
>
> Yes. The problem is that the event loop needs to be run in the main
> thread on OS X.
Thats why the user calls the event functions in their main thread to keep it
running. no? I don't think the event system needs its own thread.
> Evert
>
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