Re: [Chromium-users] Window creation questions

[Daniel E. S. <dan...@gm...>]

On 8/24/06, Brian Paul <bri...@tu...> wrote:
>
> 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.


A passive window that already has a context that was created by another
program for me.

> 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 have seen the render_to_app_window, but this is for the desktop
application, not the server(render nodes).
I want the render nodes that are rendering the crapfaker graphics to be
essentially injecting the OpenGL stream into this passive window.  I
ulitimately am going to be changing the OpenGL stream to cut out the view
matrices and such but this is the first step before I get to that.

> 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.


I would like to avoid getting deep into X and GLX if possible ;)

-Daniel