Re: [openvrml-develop] Problem rendering from one browser into multiple/changing openvrml::gl::viewers

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 17:25 +0100, Michael Sögtrop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using OpenVRML to render VRML scenes among other things into an
> GL context. This is fairly straight forward with an overloaded
> openvrml::gl::viewer that overlaods funcions like initialization and
> view port setting with empty or cut down functions and works pretty
> well. My only problem is, that my app has multiple windows with each
> having its own GL context, and I want to draw one scene in multiple of
> these windows. OpenVRML seems to remember a lot of the GL context it
> used first in its scene node structures.

[snip]

> Is there some intended way to get around this or am I doing something
> fundamentaly wrong by assuming that one browser/scene can be reused
> for different views?

Unfortunately its simply not supported. It's something I'd like to
support; but as you've discovered, the library basically assumes a 1:1
relationship between a browser and a viewer.

> When I am using one browser per view and never switch the view of a
> browser, everything works fine, but this isn't a good solution.

I'd welcome a patch to fix the library to support this; however, it's a
nontrivial amount of work.

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