[vtk-developers] vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow thoughts

[Francois Bertel]

Hi,

Can you please elaborate about the OpenGL functionality in Qt you want to use?

How would you do a vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow? How to pass context
information? How would you implement MakeCurrent(), for example?

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone see any issues with having a class vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow in
> VTK which would allow one to render a VTK scene into a drawable & context of
> their own?
>
> The reason I'm looking at this is because there is a great deal of OpenGL
> functionality in Qt that can easily be used with this approach.  The code in
> interest is not in a public api and is accessible only through using Qt's
> classes that manage drawables and contexts.
>
> I wonder if it'll be an issue as I'm seeing code in vtkCameraPass::Render that
> checks if its drawing to a framebuffer object, when it couldn't know if it is
> drawing to a framebuffer object created on the Qt side.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Clint
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