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

[Wylie, Brian]

Can someone elaborate on the exact use case for this?

I'm not sure exactly what problem this bug is suppose to address?

If you want off-screen rendering why not just compile with Mesa. Is
there a use case where you want to 'switch' between onscreen and
off-screen?

My vote is skip this until we get some more information.

  Brian Wylie - Org 9227
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> -----Original Message-----
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> paraview-developers-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paravie
w.org] On Behalf Of Berk Geveci
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:08 PM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: ParaView Developers
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] ParaView & Mangled Mesa 
> (also Ice-T)
> 
> Ouch. Any suggestions? Do we go down the path of adding 
> mangled mesa support to IceT? Otherwise, we have to give up 
> on mangled mesa alltogether (which would make my life sooo 
> much easier :-) ). We would still have an offscreen rendering 
> solution. Except, the same executable wouldn't be able to 
> switch between the two.
> 
> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: 
> >>paraview-developers-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org
> >>[mailto:paraview-developers-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview
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> > .org] On Behalf Of Berk Geveci
> > 
> >>Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:38 PM
> >>To: ParaView Developers
> >>Subject: [Paraview-developers] ParaView & Mangled Mesa (also Ice-T)
> >>
> >>
> >>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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