David M. Cotter wrote:
I have a need to send an "event" to the "main thread's event loop".
this may be done from a preemptive thread, a cooperative thread, a timer, or even the main thread itself. i want it to be posted into the event stream and handled in the order that events get processed on the main thread.
would i use 'MPI'? or 'interprocess'? or is there a 'thread' way to do this? if it's MPI, what would be the right call?
i'm coming from Mac land where i have traditionally used PostEventToQueue()
David, I'll let others who know other libraries better than I talk about them, but I would suggest against MPI for this. The goal of MPI is cluster computing, and that does not seem to be what you are doing. I could come up with a way to write this in boost.MPI, but I don't think it would be a good way. John