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Prefer the D3D renderer over GDI, at least for testing. Added support for the SDL_VIDEO_RENDERER environment variable to pick the desired render driver. Implemented WritePixels support for the D3D renderer.
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4 >Multi-threaded Programming</TITLE
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44 >SDL Library Documentation</TH
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81 >Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</H1
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92 >SDL_CreateThread</A
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93 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT
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97 >SDL_ThreadID</A
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98 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT
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102 >SDL_GetThreadID</A
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107 >SDL_WaitThread</A
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108 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;Wait for a thread to finish.</DT
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156 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT
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