On 20. Feb 2012, at 18:08, cpapado [via Software] wrote: > However, that's a bit of a clunky approach. So I was wondering to what extend > is collage decoupled from EQ and whether I can use collage from outside of an > EQ application.
Collage is, as a library, completely independent of Eq. It is not as stable yet, but we definitely want it to be used independently. The object API can be considered fairly stable by now. > I'd like to initialize collage, have it connect as a client to the server > running on the application node, then map my distributed objects and affect > them. After that, I'd like to have all my render clients (and application > node) sync to the latest version of the distributed object and use that for > rendering. > > Of course I got no clue on where to begin :P. Why do you want to connect to the server and not directly to the application? Your application then has to open a listener connection with a well-defined port, simply add a connection description to your eq::Client before initLocal(). Then either the app or your qt application has to create and register the master objects using LocalNode::registerObject (Client is a LN) and the other one has to map it using mapObject. My feeling is the Eq app should be the master. The Qt app calls a Object::commit after changing stuff. The Eq app either subscribes to Object::notifyNew(Head)Version and redraws on changes, or simply sync()s all objects before each frameStart. Make sure you set the appropriate dirty bits on master objects to redistribute slave commit changes. Section 9 of the Programming Guide has more background information. Feel free to ask more detailed questions when things are unclear. HTH, Stefan. -- View this message in context: http://software.1713.n2.nabble.com/Affecting-Collage-objects-outside-an-Equalizer-application-tp7301888p7302042.html Sent from the Equalizer - Parallel Rendering mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ eq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev http://www.equalizergraphics.com
