<-- Waiting the obligatory 15 minutes before Rob answers his own question...
Just kidding man :) I've actually wondered the same thing a few times.... - Dan On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Robert Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe someone can explain this to me: > > I've been trying to figure out how to get to the current EGLContext > from the GLSurfaceView. I looked at the APIs and looked at the code > but it doesn't seem like there is any path to it. I could have just > missed it - please correct me if I have, but it wasn't obvious. Now, > I can totally understand the designer thinking that we should protect > people from the context because they can cause bad things to happen > but actually it would be nice to have access to swapbuffers so that we > can do some effects. Fair enough, though. > > The one thing I wanted was to see the current EGLConfig so that I > could find out what config attributes I'm getting on weirdly-behaving > devices like the Galaxy. It seemed easy enough - it's passed in to > Renderer in the onSurfaceCreated method: > > public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config); > > Great! Except wait, you can't query an EGLConfig without an > EGLDisplay and that's locked up in the GLSurfaceView. So why is it > passed in to the surface created method? Isn't it useless? Accord to > GLES spec, an instance of EGLConfig is only good if you have the > display/context instances that it was created from. > > I didn't try querying it with the default context because it's > supposedly invalid but perhaps someone could shed some light on this? > I'd love if it were something dumb and obvious that I don't know > about. > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
