[SDL] SDL 1.3 roadmap...

[Christian Walther]

Ross Smith wrote:
> Torsten Giebl wrote:
>> The reason for this was always named that most
>> OSes only support event handling and drawing
>> from the main thread.
>>
>> For which OS is this true and for which false ?
> 
> It certainly isn't true on Windows or Linux. I don't have much 
> experience with Mac programming but I'm pretty sure it isn't true there 
> either.

For Cocoa, as discussed here 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/29892/focus=29922> a year 
ago (and I'm not up to date as to what's the current state of affairs), 
there are some things you can do in non-main threads and some you can't. 
Described in detail at 
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/articles/CocoaSafety.html>.

  -Christian