Re: [Chromium-dev] Custom crServer sync question

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

Daniel E. Shipton wrote:
> Any advice from this list? Since I am digging deep into the chromium 
> code this list may be more appropriate.
> 
> On 9/11/06, *Daniel E. Shipton* < dan...@gm... 
> <mailto:dan...@gm...>> wrote:
> 
>     I have a custom crServer that is embedded into a frame loop. Every
>     frame the server checks for client data which is drawn along with my
>     custom drawing updates...  This results in choppy frames because the
>     frames aren't synchronized that are coming over the wire on a
>     glFlush/SwapBuffers/etc(spu that no-ops them).  I am trying to find
>     a way to find out when a client(in our case there will always just
>     be one) is done with the current frame(buffer swapping for my app is
>     done for me so its out of my control).  I see where I can check to
>     see if the server is in between Begin/End calls..but not between
>     frames.

OpenGL doesn't have any explicit begin/end-frame commands.  The 
closest approximation is glClear and SwapBuffers/glFlush.

If your app calls [glX/wgl]SwapBuffers() you can intercept that in 
Chromium and do end-of-frame processing.

-Brian