I got a request if thats ok.
IsThreadActive:Boolean()
My thoughts are like this.
initgame()
thread -> loadmedia()
repeat
until IsThreadActive()=false
Playegame()
The 'next' version will spawn threads within a carrier function to allow this. Sadly winAPI doesn't(or at least msdn doesn't document it) have any functions to just check if a thread is running.
In the mean time, remember threads have the SAME scope as the function would if you called it normally.
So for now,
global MediaLoading = true function LoadMedia:Int(bb_func:Byte ptr ) 'load media MediaLoading = false end function CreateThreaad( LoadMedia) while MediaLoading wend 'wait for media to finish loading.
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it is win32 only?
Is it planned to make this work crossplatform;MacOs,Linux?
Win32 for now, mac/Linux versions to come. It will be totally abstracted, so anycode you write in the windows version will eventually work without alteration on other platforms, basically..
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Btw, never mentioned it before, but if you guys find any bugs, please report them.
Ant.
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