Re: Carbon windows and AGL

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Fri Apr 27 21:07:59 2007

Am 27.04.2007 um 00:07 schrieb Philippe C.D. Robert:
> I am developing a crossplatform rendering framework (in plain C) 
> which is supposed to open multiple OpenGL windows, each one in its 
> own posix thread. On OS X I create the windows using the 
> CreateNewWindow function and a window event handler:
>
> CreateNewWindow(kDocumentWindowClass, 
> (kWindowStandardHandlerAttribute|
> kWindowStandardDocumentAttributes), &winBounds, &w->winRef);
>
> My problem now is, the so created windows have no decoration at all 
> and lie in the background. What am I doing wrong?


  *never* create or manipulate GUI from any thread other than the 
main thread. Unless it's explicitly documented as being thread-safe, 
you can't assume an API to be safe for use from several threads, nor 
from another thread than the main thread.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de