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iam_donald
Member #14,318
May 2012
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I'm thought it'd be wise to have the drawing code of my game run on a separate thread for obvious performance reasons. After several attempts at this i decided to experiment and just run calls of al_draw_bitmap on a separate thread. Here is the code I used for this: 1void draw_video_frame(ALLEGRO_BITMAP * frame) { al_draw_bitmap(frame, 0, 0, 0); }
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3void * t_draw_video_frame(ALLEGRO_THREAD * thread, void * arg)
4 {
5 ALLEGRO_BITMAP * frame = (ALLEGRO_BITMAP *) arg;
6 draw_video_frame(frame);
7 return NULL;
8 }
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10void stream_video(Video * video)
11 {
12 load_frame(video);
13 video_frame_step(video);
14 ALLEGRO_THREAD * thread = al_create_thread(t_draw_video_frame, (void *) video->last_stepped_frame);
15 al_start_thread(thread);
16 al_join_thread(thread, NULL);
17 destroy_video_frame(video->prev_stepped_frame);
18 al_destroy_thread(thread);
19 }
This fails with the error: Assertion failed: (src), function al_copy_transform, file /Users/iam_donald/Downloads/allegro/src/transformations.c, line 32. Calling draw_video_frame() works. My question is: Is this behavior by design or I am I doing something silly here? Currently this behavior doesn't allow running any chunk of code with calls to al_draw_bitmap on a thread other than parent thread. |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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See al_set_target_bitmap(). Quote: A single display cannot be current for multiple threads simultaneously. If you need to release a display, so it is not current for the calling thread, call al_set_target_bitmap(NULL); So set the parent's target bitmap to NULL and set the child's to the display's back buffer. |
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iam_donald
Member #14,318
May 2012
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That explains it. Thanks. |
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