Have you tried to use locking described at: http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/advanced.html?
AFAIK, end_job() will access FLTK drawing facility again, which is probably the cause why you are getting blocked UI again. Sanel On 01/28/2013 07:51 PM, David Lopez wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a multi-thread FLTK 1.3 application on Win XP. The problem is that > when the application tries to print (using Fl_Printer) all threads get > blocked while the Windows printer selection dialog is open. In that case the > method Fl_Printer::start_job() was called from a callback (from main thread). > So to prevent the application from blocking I decided to create a working > thread that calls Fl_Printer::start_job() … Fl_Printer::end_job(). > With this change, the application doesn’t block itself while the dialog is > open but blocks forever after printing. > I suspect that I’m doing something wrong since I know that no window should > be open or close from threads other than the main one, but I don´t know what > would be the right way to implement this. > Thank you very much. > David > _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
