dmedia library

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/11/2014 7:38 p.m., luminousone wrote:
> On Friday, 7 November 2014 at 06:29:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 7/11/2014 6:56 p.m., luminousone wrote:
>>> I have been working on a media library, it still has a long way to go,
>>> but I figured its about time I shared what I am doing.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/luminousone/dmedia
>>>
>>> If I could possibly convince a few people out their to give'er a once
>>> over.
>>>
>>> I use XCB/XLIB/GLX directly, so I am not just simply wrapping SDL or
>>> SFML. And I am using XCB for event handling and opening windows.
>>>
>>> Threading should work much more reliably, due to the use of XCB.
>>>
>>> I am releasing the library under the BSD license,
>>
>> Its a good start.
>> But instead of creating the window itself manually would you consider
>> using DWC [0]?
>>
>> DWC is more or less done. But I need help with my plans for a game dev
>> framework in D.
>> If you're interested in helping with that please give me an email
>> first at lastname.co.nz
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/rikkimax/DWC
>
> XLIB is an absolute train wreck when it comes to threading, call
> XPollEvent outside your draw thread will most likely segfault.
>
> As well I need control of the opengl contexts, as I want to separate
> drawing and loading into separate threads.
>
> I need both good threading support, and control over my opengl contexts
> to fulfill the goals I have set for myself.
>
> That said, it is a nice looking library. But it would not fulfill my needs.

Fair enough. Threading is a major issue with those low level api's.