From: Hugh Fisher (Hugh.Fisher++at++act.cmis.CSIRO.AU)
Date: 05/30/2001 00:19:31
Is there any way to run pfdLoadFile as a separate
thread/sproc?
I'm importing large scene files into a walkabout/fly around
type application and it takes 30 seconds or more to load the
file during which the user is staring at a blank screen. It
would be really nice if I could progressively "rez up" the
screen as the database loaded, but I'd settle for having a
simple splash screen/animation display while waiting.
Trying to call pfdLoadFile from a newly created sproc dumps
core with a segment violation deep inside. I thought that
maybe an asynchronous database function would do the trick,
but that also dies somewhere: Performer reports that it has
"Caught SIGCHLD, exiting..." before the load is done.
The version of Performer is 2.2, has this functionality been
added to a later version?
Any help appreciated.
-- Hugh Fisher DCS, ANU
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