Integrating Tracktion Engine into another event loop

Tracktion Engine
1

Hi, folks!

I would like to integrate the audio features of the Tracktion Engine into a Qt application. This is the code for the runDispatchLoop() method:

void MessageManager::runDispatchLoop()
{
    jassert (isThisTheMessageThread()); // must only be called by the message thread

    while (quitMessageReceived.get() == 0)
    {
        JUCE_TRY
        {
            if (! dispatchNextMessageOnSystemQueue (false))
                Thread::sleep (1);
        }
        JUCE_CATCH_EXCEPTION
    }
}

I couldn’t find any public method that would poll and dispatch the queued messages and then return, so I was wondering if something like:

void MessageManager::dispatchQueuedMessages()
{
    jassert (isThisTheMessageThread()); // must only be called by the message thread

    dispatchNextMessageOnSystemQueue (true);
}

would do the trick, because this way I could call that from my main Qt thread (or any other non-juce event loop really) and wouldn’t need to deal with the two different threads accessing the same set of data.

Thanks!

Tracktion with QT (6+) - recent examples?
2

You shouldn’t need to run your own message loop, the Qt message loop should handle everything as long as you call initialiseJuce_GUI() / shutdownJuce_GUI() before / after using the engine.

Think of it kinda like a plugin, the host runs the message loop and the hidden juce window gets sent the messages it needs.

I haven’t tried it however, this is probably a use case we should test.

Backend Audio Fundamentals
3

Well, I have just tried it and it works like a charm, sooo much simpler than I thought.

That makes sense.
Thanks a lot, @RolandMR!

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