Tid between classes

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Mar 7 02:30:15 PST 2013


On 2013-03-07 11:07, Stephen Jones wrote:
> As far as I can see gtkD no longer supports openGL so I was thinking it
> might be possible to run a gtkD GUI on the main thread and
> openGL/Derelict on another. The Gl thread is derived; extends Thread.
> With threads having separate memory is this assumption correct?
>
> If it is, I would like to use message passing via Tid(s) to allow the
> gui to tell the gl thread what to draw and where. I can pass the main
> threads Tid to gl upon construction, but I don't particularly want to
> set up a while loop on the main thread looking to receive the Tid sent
> back from the owned gl thread. But I need the gl Tid to send data
> through to the gl thread. Is there a another way to access the gl
> thread's Tid from within the main thread?

Not to answer the question but DWT supports OpenGL:

https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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