From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 05/30/2001 04:00:00
So you have tried using pfDBase(void) are you creating a pfBuffer before
you call pfdLoadFile()? Are you merging the pfBuffer back into the main
pfBuffer after you load everything?
Brian
Hugh Fisher wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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