[PD-dev] object with worker thread

[Georg Holzmann]

Hallo!

>> the objects in threadlib, or sndfiler
> 
> I am thinking of having one "worker" thread which listens for events  
> then calls the output function for each instance of [hid].  So there  
> would only be one worker thread per device, no matter how many  
> instances of [hid] were accessing that device.

yes, [sndfiler] has also only one worker thread ... (see 
externals/tb/sndfiler/src/sndfiler.c)

You can register a function in a FIFO (fifo_put), and this function will 
be called from the worker thread, then you can use sys_callback to 
synchronize with pd's main thread.

LG
Georg