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JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED questions

General JUCE discussion
#1

Hello!

I've been keeping in mind the advice from other threads about trying to avoid code called within #if JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED blocks.

Whilst trying to decide whether to bend FileBasedDocument to my current task or just write something specialised, I noticed that most of it is in fact dependent upon this. I couldn't see any ready-made alternative, so I found myself wondering if maybe I'm missing something (since you recommend disabling modal loops, yet FileBasedDocument is used in Introjucer). 

I figured I'd try actually disabling it myself (i.e. setting JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED=0). However, I don't even seem to be able to compile a basic app [NOTE: only tried on windows so far] with this disabled - JUCEApplicationBase::main/quit both call functions in MessageManager that aren't defined without it. 

Am I missing something? Should it actually work with this disabled, or is this something that actually isn't really ready to do on all platforms?

It's probably just baby-brain rendering me incapable of seeing something obvious!

#2

Yeah, that's a tricky one because it relies heavily on platform native file-choosers which are modal. (And to be honest, it'd be a bugger to refactor it to work asynchronously!)

Since it's a class that's probably only relevant for apps in desktop-OSes, I've not bothered too much about trying to sort it out, but at some point it'd be nice to get everything in the library to be async.

#3

Glad I'm not going mad there then :)

Would you also be able to clarify if should actually be possible to compile an app on windows with JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED=0? I'm not sure if I've done something wrong on my end, but (as mentioned above) it seems there are some calls in JUCEApplicationBase::main/quit that don't have definitions (i.e. MessageManager::getInstance()->runDispatchLoop() and MessageManager::getInstance()->stopDispatchLoop()).

Perhaps they're defined somewhere else and I'm just not setting the flag in the right place to get them included in my code!

#4

TBH I've not tried compiling on Windows with that flag.. It could easily be the case that something would need tweaking.