Re: [Chromium-users] Window creation questions

[Brian P. <bri...@tu...>]

Daniel E. Shipton wrote:
> I would like to have chromium render to a context that I have already 
> created.

You mean render to a window, right?  A rendering context != a window.


> Is the best way to do this is re-writing a render spu with that 
> purpose?

Have you seen the render SPU's 'render_to_app_window' option?


> I hacked the render spu a bit for the prototype and got rid of 
> any window/context creation calls and makeCurrent calls.  What I really 
> would like to do is just use Chromium to transport the graphics stream.  
> I would like to be in charge of opening windows and contexts, and then 
> telling chromium to render (insert the stream) into each 
> window/context.  Ideas?

Well, if you don't want to mess with X windows or GLX at all, you can 
use the native Chromium interface for creating windows, rendering 
contexts, binding them, etc.  See the cr/include/chromium.h file.

-Brian