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[georgeburns]

Originally Posted by bluelobster

Good question.

Maybe I don't understand how threads work but here is what I understand needs to happen...

For the progress bar:

// level load
- (void) loadLevel
{
  // do some stuff
  
  // update percentDone

  // do more stuff

  // update percentDone
}

// render
- (void) render
{
  // figure out the bar length
  barLength = barLength * percentDone;
  // render the bar
  renderBar();
}

So the problem here is the core of the progress bar update is done in the render loop...I don't know that a thread that is created would be able to access the render loop since it is setup and called from the grand daddy game loop. Know what I mean?

Is it possible to render stuff in a separate thread? I don't know how to do that...

What's nice about what i'm doing now...well not that nice because it doesn't work...but I can let my main game loop go rendering the frames as it does and when I spawn off the thread to do the loading work it doesn't have to worry about being involved with the renderer...

I'm not seeing any code for the threading.