Re: Creating jpegs in a separate Thread

[Adam Fedor]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:48, Stefan Kleine Stegemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've a problem when trying to create an NSImage from a jpeg file in 
> separate
> thread. I get a core dump that points somewhere into libwraster. So i 
> digged
> deeper, and found that the wraster context is null in the method 
> _initFromWrasterFile
> in XGBitmapImageRep.
> 
> any workarounds for this?
> 

Well, currently the current GSDisplayServer is stored on a per-thread
basis, which is probably a bug.

I think a workaround, would be, in the main thread:

srv = GSCurrentServer()

and in your other thread:


[GSDisplayServer setCurrentServer: srv];