[Paraview-developers] ParaView & Mangled Mesa (also Ice-T)

[Moreland, Kenneth]

It sounds like the problem may be even worse than that.  The IceT
libraries themselves make direct OpenGL calls.  So even if all VTK
classes used mangled mesa correctly, IceT would still be using the
unmangled OpenGL.

-Ken

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> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:38 PM
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> Subject: [Paraview-developers] ParaView & Mangled Mesa (also Ice-T)
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> 
> I was tracking down bug #1784. After fixing a problem with 
> the command line arguments, I still couldn't get it to work. 
> Digging into the code further, I found that the problem is 
> the fact that paraview creates a vtkIceTRenderer on the 
> server. vtkIceTRenderer is a sub-class of vtkOpenGLRenderer 
> and does not support mangled mesa. The only way I can think 
> of fixing this problem is to create a vtkMesaIceTRenderer (a 
> al vtkMesaRenderer) and delegate the instantiation of IceT 
> renderer to a factory. Any comments? Volunteers?
> 
> -Berk
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