OpenGL doesn't work when using threads?
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Everything worked fine in my game until i decidet to use multible threads (but it is an OpenGL problem, I think). I created a seperat thread to load my textures to be able to print status informations while loading (didn''t work otherwise). Now the strange problem:
Sometimes (ca. every 10th start) one texture, or sometimes even more, aren''t loadet. If I bind them it produces the same result like binding the ID 0. The even bigger problem: gluBuild2DMipmaps normally returns 0 for all textures. So there is no way to detect if a texture is loadet correcty (and retry it).
Does anybody has some idears?
btw.: If I call the function for loading the textures normally, and not with pthread_create (yes, I''m a linux programmer) everything works fine. So it must be a thread problem.
OpenGL is not thread-safe. If you want to use OpenGL in a multithreaded app, you must make sure that all GL calls are in the same thread.
1GB+ of documentation.... wglMakeCurrent explicitly explains how to use OpenGL in a multi-threaded application....
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@jenova: Maybe nothing is more troublesome than the offort of reading to most people! If you had read my article you would know that I''m NOT programming for windows. So I have no use for your wgl* functions and msdn.microsoft.com.
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Thanx, it seems to work now. I created a global bool variable, which is true, if an other OpenGL function is processing. If so, the thread waits for it to change.
most wgl functions have a counter part in the glx system, this is one of them, a quick google would have shown this up
http://www.cevis.uni-bremen.de/~uwe/opengl/glXMakeCurrent.html
so, before you go slating someone for pointing you in the right direction, which he did, try considering that kinda thing.
http://www.cevis.uni-bremen.de/~uwe/opengl/glXMakeCurrent.html
so, before you go slating someone for pointing you in the right direction, which he did, try considering that kinda thing.
Also - nowhere in your post does it say that you aren''t using windows. The closest thing is when you say your a Linux programmer. Which does not automatically mean it aint a windows app.
Landsknecht
Landsknecht
You should only have to protect shared resources by a mutex. This program tests if your OpenGL implementation is thread-safe
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mesa3d/Mesa/xdemos/glthreads.c?rev=1.2
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mesa3d/Mesa/xdemos/glthreads.c?rev=1.2
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