[xine-devel] Re: MacOSX OpenGL video output driver

[Matthias H. <ma...@ms...>]

> >You might want to take a look at the new OpenGL plugin I checked in in
> >xine's CVS. This one does everything involved with OpenGL in a single
> >thread. This might be interesting for MacOS as well.
> 
> Thanks Matthias!  I'll definitely have a look at your OpenGL plugin.  
> I've checked in some small patches for the build system to enable the 
> OpenGL plugin to be properly built on Mac OS X -- I've tested it with 
> some X11 xine frontends and it seems to work fine on the Mac, so I 
> guess you could say it works OK on big-endian machines :).

Err... Do you mean the OpenGL plugin works out-of-the-box on Mac OS X?
That would be way cool.

> >At first I thought it would be great to combine these two APIs into a
> >single one, but as I looked at the code I'm not entirely sure any more.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to one have plugin which will drive both 
> X11 and Mac OS X OpenGL video outputs, but it should be very possible 
> to share very large chunks of code between the two plugins.  (Gotta

Already thought about moving the render / update routines into a own
source file, as usually you are not interested about the glue code when
writing a new rendering model.

> have Environment_Mapped_Torus support in the Mac OS X video driver too 
> ;).  I've been thinking about playing with the Mac OS X video driver 
> code over the past few days, so this seems like a good starting point.

May be you should just move all rendering-specific code (the functions
themself, maybe the entry point lists as well) to another source file,
and add a header file. Change Makefile.am accordingly for both modules
and it should work.

> >BTW - what does something like  '[openGLView exitFullScreen];' mean?
> >Is this objective C code? Sorry for my ignorance, I only know C++ :-]
> As Michael mentioned, that'd be the Objective-C equivalent of 
> openGLView->exitFullScreen() in C++.  Yep, Objective-C has strange 
> syntax, I know :) ...

And AFAIR it uses real message passing... Interesting language :)

CU

Matthias

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