Re: [Chromium-users] Window creation questions

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

On 8/24/06, Brian Paul <bri...@tu...> wrote:
>
> Daniel E. Shipton wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >      >
> >      > 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.
> >
> >     Have you looked at the reassemble.conf file?  It does tilesort then
> >     puts the results back into the original application window.
> >
> >
> > Brian,
> >
> > I am trying to take the graphics stream from a desktop app and put the
> > stream back into a passive window (chromium would not control this
> > window at all) with the projection matrices changed to my own custom
> > view or views(think 6 sided CAVE) so I can move around within the
> > graphics stream.  Hopefully this gives you a better idea of what I am
> > trying to accomplish.
>
> OK, I didn't know what you meant by a passive window.
>
> The only thing I can think of would be for the app that controls your
> passive window to somehow pass it's ID to the Cr mothership as the
> 'crut' window.  Then, enable the render SPU's 'render_to_crut_window'
> option.


For my prototype that is exactly where I started.  But it didn't work
because it would always complain about the visual s not matching up.
Eventually I just made the renderspu not call SystemMakeCurrent.  That ended
up working but I this solution won't work when there are multiple windows
opening on a display.

The other thing I am trying to accomplish is removing the mothership from
the equation as much as possible.  So passing things to the mothership will
not be very viable. I just want to multiplex the stream out to render nodes.
So the mothership has little configuration to know about.

-Dan