[Chromium-dev] Render spu

[Brian W. <bw...@sw...>]

Hi All,

I'm been experimenting with the render spu and have some food for =
thought.

All the demos work fine on my machine... but...

When you bolt the render spu directly onto a client it breaks. (win2k, =
geforce2&3 on my 2 machines).
The food for thought is I'm assuming that's because the client is also =
opening up a window and now the dll is in the same process they might be =
'stepping on each other toes'.

Which leads me to a discussion question... Why is the render dll opening =
up a window and creating a gl context? If the render spu is suppose to =
be masquerading as the opengl dll then a 'side effect' of opening a =
window seems not good.

Should the render spu assume a valid context will be created by the =
'app'?
(Looking at the code a see a comment about 'extensions', when loaded =
they need a valid context or something like that)

Why is the render spu doing anything but simply handing off the calls to =
the system libraries?
Should the crserver be the one responsible for creating the context (if =
it going to be rendering)?

For instance if you basically wanted vanilla opengl but wanted =
everything rendered in pink, you would 'inherit' from the render spu and =
make a small mod. You could then just use the new dll directly on the =
client and of course you wouldn't want an extra window hanging around =
(or worse breaking the code like is does now).

Disclaimer: The intricacies of dll's are above my head at this point and =
there may be fundamental technical reasons why this discussion is =
moronic.

Brian Wylie
wy...@vi...