If I wanted to create my own MainCoroutineDispatch...
# coroutinesd
Daniel Pitts
12/12/2023, 5:15 PMIf I wanted to create my own MainCoroutineDispatcher(), what's the fastest way to do so?
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
12/12/2023, 5:46 PMWhy?
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Daniel Pitts
12/12/2023, 5:46 PMI’m playing around with lwjgl and it has a lot of methods that need to run from the main thread on OSX.
Daniel Pitts
12/12/2023, 5:47 PMSeems like it would be the right bridge for coroutines and LWJGL
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kevin.cianfarini
12/12/2023, 5:51 PMI don't know what lwjgl is, but have you considered looking at other implementations of main dispatchers?
It will require hooking dispatch calls up to whatever the platforms equivalent would be. Eg. Post on Android loopers
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Daniel Pitts
12/12/2023, 5:52 PMI looked at the Swing implementation. It looks kind of simple. I’m just not sure how the loader finds the factory.
Daniel Pitts
12/12/2023, 5:54 PMLWJGL is “Light Weight Java Gaming Library”. It’s a JVM interface into OpenGL/OpenCL/OpenAL.
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Dmitry Khalanskiy [JB]
12/13/2023, 9:37 AMThe fastest way would be to copy-paste code from something like https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/tree/master/ui/kotlinx-coroutines-swing, including the resource directory.
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