HI Nicolas, On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM, nicolas peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done several tests and have reached to the conclusion that it is not > possible to use two viewers at the same time from one process.
Are you running the viewers single threaded? If so then the lazy setting of makeCurrent for each for the viewers will mean that after the first frame the makeCurrent won't be called as the viewer assumes that it already has the context current so can save the cost of the makeCurrent. Interleaving two viewers in the same thread would then cause one viewer's GraphicsWindow to be the one that is current and the other will never be updated. osgViewer hasn't been designed for this usage model - one that I haven't ever thought of as a combination in fact - its support may different combinations of viewer usage but just not this one I'm afraid. Potentially we could modify osgViewer::ViewerBase to allow you to use the viewer in this way i.e. have two viewers called from the same frame loop thread, this would require switching off the lazy makeCurrent mechanism - the method that does it is ViewerBase::makeCurrent(osg::GraphicsContext* gc) that you'll find in include/osgViewer/ViewerBase. Perhaps a bool flag in ViewerBase could be used to enable the lazy makeCurrent() for instance. > This happens even when they do not share anything and even if I set-up > the viewers from different threads. > I have done the most simplistic code and even this fail. > I'm using OSG 2.3.4 on Linux 2.6.22 with NVIDIA proprietary drivers. > > I would like to help to solve this if you confirm it as a bug and if it is > possible. You usage model is rather unusually so you using osgViewer out of scope, so rather than bugs its most design limitations. The OSG is not a static object - it evolves over time in response to being pushed into new spheres and usage models, this sometimes requires big refactoring to open the news ways of using it, but often a little tweak here or there can deliver a lot. I haven't fully got my head around your usage model, so I'd suggest writing an example that could go in OpenSceneGraph/examples that illustrates what you are trying to do, but its failing. This example could then be used by others to see the problem first hand and then a solution could be found, but it a tweak to the example or a tweak to osgViewer itself. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
