Question

maybe I’ve just mised something in docs, but I can’t figure out, how to dispatch an event for application from different program thread.
My pseudocode:

void main() {
   SDL_init();
   createThread(&secondThread);
   while(!quit) {
     /*EVENT HANDLER*/
     SDL_Event event;
     SDL_WaitEvent(&event);
     switch(event.type) {
         /*manage events*/
     }
   }
   SDL_Quit();
}
void secondThread() {
   char output[255];
   readSocket(output);  //Blocking function
   if(output=="EXIT")
      SDL_dispatchEvent(SDL_QUIT);
   return 0;
}

Answer 1

It sounds like you’re looking for SDL_PushEvent().

It is even documented as being thread-safe, which of course is not something one can generally assume for many libraries.