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Window / Re: Multiple windows each in own thread

« on: September 08, 2016, 06:00:00 pm »

Ok, thank you

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Window / Re: Multiple windows each in own thread

« on: September 07, 2016, 04:02:40 pm »

Yes, I am. For instance DarkRokus code above runs fine for one thread.
Didn't try the other modules.

I downloaded the VS 14 version of SFML 2.4 and I'm using the VS 14 Community Edition Update 3.

But the latest improvements since 2.3.2 dont seem to be dramatical, so I will simply use the older version now.

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Window / Re: Multiple windows each in own thread

« on: September 07, 2016, 02:50:28 pm »

Thank you for the quick reply and for your effort to try this.

I used SFML 2.4.0 x64 with Visual Studio 2015.

Now I set up the 2.3.2 and it works! (x86 and x64)

Is this a new feature or a new bug? Can't find anything in the changelog.

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Window / Multiple windows each in own thread

« on: September 06, 2016, 09:05:13 pm »

I want a console application that is able to create some small sfml-windows that appear next to the console.
My idea was to leave logical computations together with console io in the main thread and to create a new thread for each external window to handle events etc.

I tried things like:

void spawn()
{
        sf::RenderWindow w(sf::VideoMode(400, 400), "external");
        w.setActive(true);

        while (w.isOpen())
        {
                sf::Event event;
                while (w.pollEvent(event))
                        if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                                w.close();

                w.clear();
                w.display();
        }
}

void main()
{
        std::thread(&spawn).detach();
        std::thread(&spawn).detach();

        std::cin.get();
}

I also experimented with creating the window in the main thread and passing it to the functions (with deactivating it before).
However, as soon as I try to spawn more than one external window, I always get an stack overflow error.

Is it possible to handle multiple windows like that? What am I missing here?
Thanks.