Hi Ulrich, On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Ulrich Hertlein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > Indeed it does. I was hoping to use the various *GetCurrentContext() > functions available on Carbon, Unix, and Windows.
You'll also need makeCurrent and releaseContext methods as well to be able to multiple graphics context work. I don't recall SDL having these - I looked for these when I wrote the osgviewersdl example but couldn't implement a GaphicsWindowSDL purely because of these. Basically SDL can't do multiple context work. >> For this type of work you really should not use SDL, it really isn't >> and API that scales well to handling things like threading or >> multi-context work. The inbuilt features of osgViewer are much better >> for doing this, SDL offers nothing extra - only restrictives relative >> to what the inbuilt window support can provide. > > I hear you :-) > But this is for an existing framework/API that otherwise wouldn't have a > dependency on OSG and there probably would be a few unhappy people if I > suddenly introduce a new dependency as complex as OSG 'just' for the > windowing... We'll if you want advanced rendering support such as handling multiple rendering contexts then SDL just won't cut the mustard, you'll have to look to a more advanced toolkit. The best you can do in your position is try to use the OSG's FBO support at least then you could do everything from a single graphics context. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
