[Openal-devel] Thread-local contexts

[Jason Daly]

Chris Robinson wrote:
> My current thinking is to have two new functions.
>
> alcMakeThreadCurrent - Sets a thread-specific context, which overrides the
>     process-wide context when set to a non-NULL value. If non-NULL,
>     alcGetCurrentContext will return this context when called from the
>     corresponding thread, otherwise it will return the process-wide context.
>
> alcGetThreadContext - Returns the current thread-specific context, or NULL if
>     one is not set. Unlike alcGetCurrentContext, this will not return the
>     process-wide context if no thread-specific context is set.
>   

Seems reasonable so far.  One question...

If you call (in the same thread):

ctx1 = alcCreateContext(...)
ctx2 = alcCreateContext(...)
ctx3 = alcCreateContext(...)

...

alcMakeCurrent(ctx1)
...
alcMakeThreadCurrent(ctx2)
...
alcMakeCurrent(ctx3)


Which context is current now?

--"J"