[vtkusers] Share graphical resources (e.g., VBOs) between multiple vtkRenderWindows

[Ken Martin]

My understanding is that what you are doing should work. After that you
should be able to create VBOs in one context and access them from the
other. But I've never tried it myself.

Thanks
Ken

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:32 AM, longbowzhang <longbowzhangchina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Ken,
> Thanks a lot for replying.
> I tried to communicate between vtkRenderWindows via low-level
> Windows-specific function wglShareLists function.
>
> The whole process is:
> Assume we have two vtkRenderWindow objects (rwA, rwB).
> 1:
> HGLRC glrcA = rwA->GetGenericDisplayId();
> 2:
> and exactly after rwB is created, call
> glrcB = rwB->GetGenericDisplayId();
> wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL);
> BOOL error = wglShareLists(glrcA , glrcB);
> ...
>
> It seems like in this way it can work. I can use VBOs, which was created
> under rendering context of renderWindow A, at rendering context
> renderWindowB.
>
> To be honest, I am not 100% sure about correctness.
> Based on your vtk developing experience, could you tell if what I've done
> make sense?
>
> Thanks again.
> Best regards,
> Changgong
>
>
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