Re: New Darwin Patch

On Jul 15, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Christopher Waters wrote:

>
> On Jul 15, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Jorge Luis Williams wrote:
>> I was running some experiments and I noticed that some AGL and GLX 
>> programs generate CGL calls which are not documented.  Have you run 
>> into these problems?  I always assumed one of the undocumented calls 
>> linked the window with the context..is this what you're doing in the 
>> render spu??
>
> Actually, I have, and all I've done with them is forward them to their 
> respective native CGL functions.  I'm not sure what the non-context 
> parameters are yet, but I've been working to figure/find that out =)
> These functions include:
> 	CGLSetSurface (4 parameters with the first being CGLContextObj)
> 	CGLGetSurface (4 parameters with the first being CGLContextObj)
> 	CGLUpdateContext (1 paramter, which is a CGLContextObj)

Yup, I ran into these too :-)

>
>> How functional is your patch have you tested with AGL, GLX and Cocoa 
>> apps?  If your patch isn't fully functional yet maybe we should merge 
>> both of our patches since mine appears to be fully functional for GLX 
>> apps.  Take a look at what I've done and let's see if we can add a 
>> compilation option where we can compile with only GLX support and 
>> this is fully functional for now or we can compile CGL which will be 
>> experimental till you get your stuff up and running. This will get 
>> people up and running on Darwin fast.
>>
>> On the other hand if you feel CGL is complete enough to support CGL, 
>> AGL, and GLX apps - then maybe we should ignore my patch completely 
>> :-)
>
> I have only been able to test it with the chromium demo programs, and 
> some of the samples that Apple provides.  While trying to test a Cocoa 
> ogl app, I noticed that chromium (starting mothership) doesn't handle 
> pathnames with spaces in them very well, even the "\ " spaces =(
>
> At this time, I would assume that it works with everything except AGL 
> ... that is, -if- NSOpenGL doesnt do anything with contexts =\
>

I'm very impressed with your progress!!  If most things work (CGL, 
GLX), then it might be a good idea to back out of my patch and just use 
yours.
I'm really looking forward to your patch.

-jOrGe W.




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