On 12/20/10 4:56 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Though fork() per se will not work on win32 either - though you can of >> course exec another process in a way that's analogous... > > Yes; CreateProcess() has [excessively] numerous flags > that can be used to achieve very similar behavior to the > traditional unix fork/exec combo. > > There's also ways to get exit codes, and test to see > if the process exited (both blocking and non-blocking). > All Win32 API stuff, but it works well. You just have to > read a hell of a lot of Win32 API documentation. For instance, > if you read the CreateProcess() docs, you'll find this exponentially > spans outward into separate docs on structures within structures. > Worth reading all that stuff. As much as I dislike the Win32 API design, > it is somewhat well documented, and seems to 'behave' if you play by > their specific rules, and don't try to 'intuit' too much. > > _______________________________________________ > fltk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
Actually after thinking about it, I'd like to stay away from spawning a second process, as students can do more interactive things with the VideoStream object then I think we can do relying on inter-process communication. Right now I'm only supporting Linux/OSX and Windows via Cygwin, but I would like to be forward thinking about this as to be able to move away from cygwin in the future. The reason I've ran into this problem is I wanted to use fltk using the native windows gui rather than the cygwin fltk which relies on running an X-server on top of windows. One thing that has occurred to me, is to do something like what SDL does: It renames the user's main() function to SDLmain using a #define, and then calls that main function after it has done its own setting up. I could do something similar, but call the user's main function in its own thread, and use the main thread for the FLTK calls, like Fl::run(), whatever. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
