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[Manta] Re: Re: RTRT::beginRendering(FALSE)


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  • From: "James Bigler" < >
  • Cc: "Abe Stephens" < >,
  • Subject: [Manta] Re: Re: RTRT::beginRendering(FALSE)
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:23:11 -0600
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Yes.  You don't want the wxApp to hang around waiting for the renderer to 
stop.

For a stand alone executable, you would want it to wait, as there are
interesting things that happen (global variable destructors) when the
main thread exits and you have other threads still in flight.

James

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Li-Ta Lo 
< >
 wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 13:06 -0600, Abe Stephens wrote:
>> Rendering is performed by all of the worker threads which are created
>> by the function. The conditional you're referring to determines
>> whether the calling thread should join them.
>>
>
> I got it. So the "main thread" can continue to its wxApp.mainloop(),
> right?
>
> Ollie
>
>

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