Re: RayShade with XCode

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

On 19 Jul, 2006, at 21:56, James W. Walker wrote:

> Roger Holmes <rog...@mi...> wrote:
>
>> Ah, the problem was there but not quite as I remembered. It was  
>> getting
>> a reference to the plug-in's bundle. If you are writing an
>> application then
>> this is very easy, but there does not seem to be an easy way for a
>> plug-in.
>
>
> I've seen this question asked and answered more than once on Apple
> mailing lists.  The standard answer is to use
> CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier.  Of course, your plug-in should have
> a unique bundle ID.

There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza... When I read about that routine
I thought " I need the bundleID, its in the Info.plist, how do I get  
it from the
info.plist, I need the bundleRef". As a die hard Mac Programmer I always
try not to have hard coded strings in my program, but I suppose I should
use one here.


>
>>>  1. Hardware-accelerated offscreen rendering would be helpful  
>>> e.g. for
>>>  high-resolution printing.  This could be done by tiling and pbuffer
>>>  rendering.
>>
>> I always assumed it was accelerated, there is not much of a delay  
>> anyway
>> considering the huge number of pixels being generated. Hi-res
>> printing is
>> not really that fast from Quartz either, but I agree a speed gain
>> would be useful.
>
>
> It's not just speed that motivates this wish.  On the Mac, the
> software OpenGL renderer is quite capable, but on Windows, it's in
> the stone age.  If I want to be able to use any OpenGL extensions, I
> need to avoid software rendering on Windows.


I see.



Does anyone know if OpenGL can do anything like the CSG operations
supported on the old Apple NuBus graphics accelerator card?

Roger Holmes
Microspot Ltd