[SDL] Mac OS X Quartz Events Change/Suggestion

[Martin Storsjö]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, ggadwa at charter.net wrote:

> Bear with me here as I've skimmed the code and there might be other
> issues I'm missing.
>
> Before I made my engine cross-platform, my mouse control was much
> better.  After moving to SDL, it's a lot worse.  I think it has
> something to do with the nature of not being able to call PumpEvents
> enough during times of heavy rendering.  You can't use a thread on OS X
> as this causes a crash (the event routines need to be called on the main
> thread.)

Quick question, are you doing

if (SDL_PollEvent(&event))

or

while (SDL_Pollevent(&event))

in your main loop? If you're using the former, try the latter. :-)

// Martin