Threaded window disappears, still thinks its open?

[m00npirate]

I am trying to use a SFML window on a separate thread from the main thread (which hosts a GTK window). Whenever I try this, the window immediately disappears. It still runs DispatchEvents, Display, Clear, and IsOpen() returns true. Am I doing something wrong?

Here is a minimal example:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using SFML.Graphics;
using SFML.Window;

namespace MessageView
{
    class EntryPoint
    {
        static RenderWindow window = new RenderWindow(new VideoMode(400, 400), "test");
        static Thread thread = new Thread(run);
        static bool running = true;
        static void run()
        {
            while (running)
            {
                window.DispatchEvents();
                window.Clear();
                window.Display();
            }
        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
           
            //thread.Start(); //window will immediately disappear
            //run(); //runs fine

        }
    }
}


[m00npirate]

Aha! I was browsing around and saw this post in another thread

SetActive is only about drawing. A window needs to be active when you want to draw stuff. So:
- you must call SetActive(false) before launching the rendering thread
- that's all, SetActive(true) is called automatically by Clear/Draw/Display

This fixed it =]

[Laurent]

Really? This made the window disapear?? Not calling SetActive(false) can trigger OpenGL errors, and the inner area of the window may contain garbage, but the window itself shouldn't completely disapear...

[m00npirate]

Even stranger. If I SetActive(false) in my minimal example, the window still disappears. If I do it together with my Gtk window, it works... I will investigate further in a bit.

[Chris12]

The problem is that the process terminates maybe because the Main function returns...

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 static void Main(string[] args)
        {
           
            thread.Start(); //window will immediately disappear
            //run(); //runs fine

while(true)
{
// Sleep or do anything else here to prevent the process from exiting.
Thread.Sleep(100);

}

        }



Try this!