Hi there,

Can someone fill me in on the adavantages (if any) of setting Houdini's UI to be threaded in Linux? I know the tablet drivers cannot run this way - or couldn't - umm, what is the status of this now?

Is it more than just being able to hit escape instead of getting a pop up idialog?

Thanks,
Jason

The only advantage is being able to hit escape, though that's a pretty big one. It's especially nice to not have the interrupt dialog keep popping up for each frame when you're simulating.

A bug in X has recently been fixed so we can now support the tablet when threaded UI is turned on. Later versions of Houdini will check the version of X to see if the fix is there.

Unfortunately, not all the bugs have been ironed out of threaded UI on Linux in Houdini 8, so your mileage may vary. Our goal is to have it stable for the next release, though.

Thanks, Lucas.