New version of Tweak-OpenGL package

> David Faught wrote:
> >> Oh. You must have launched this from within Tweak project builder. This
> >> is not what I meant. The example was meant as a sort of "standalone app"
> >> in Morphic that gets run without the overhead implied by
> >> CProjectBuilder. In other words you need to launch it from Morphic not
> >> from inside Tweak.
> >
> > This is also the result when I use the statement:
> >
> > CProjectMorph open: COpenGLPanel
> >
> >> from your previous note.
>
> Really? Try the attached version which I used to verify that it works
> against the SDK. If you launch it via CProjectMorph open: COpenGLPanel
> it will display a morphic window with a red opengl panel in it (which
> works just the way I described). And if you still get that error then
> please send me a screenshot (or post a youtube video ;-) because there
> must be something big I'm missing from your description.

> On 7/17/07, Andreas Raab <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > David Faught wrote:
> > >> Oh. You must have launched this from within Tweak project builder. This
> > >> is not what I meant. The example was meant as a sort of "standalone app"
> > >> in Morphic that gets run without the overhead implied by
> > >> CProjectBuilder. In other words you need to launch it from Morphic not
> > >> from inside Tweak.
> > >
> > > This is also the result when I use the statement:
> > >
> > > CProjectMorph open: COpenGLPanel
> > >
> > >> from your previous note.
> >
> > Really? Try the attached version which I used to verify that it works
> > against the SDK. If you launch it via CProjectMorph open: COpenGLPanel
> > it will display a morphic window with a red opengl panel in it (which
> > works just the way I described). And if you still get that error then
> > please send me a screenshot (or post a youtube video ;-) because there
> > must be something big I'm missing from your description.
>
> Thanks very much!  Your class works just fine.  Now I just need to
> include a few more things without breaking it, or figure out why the
> one I have doesn't work the same way.  And thanks very much for the
> OpenGL extension loader fix too.  That actually makes some choices a
> little harder because I can approach my project with a wider scope.

>> Thanks very much!  Your class works just fine.  Now I just need to
>> include a few more things without breaking it, or figure out why the
>> one I have doesn't work the same way.  And thanks very much for the
>> OpenGL extension loader fix too.  That actually makes some choices a
>> little harder because I can approach my project with a wider scope.
>
> Okay, I was able to get some simple examples to work based on your
> COpenGLPanel class with some minor changes, up to and including some
> trivial shader programs.  But when I try to use the COpenGLPanel as an
> element in a simple UI layout with a few other elements, I'm back to
> the same error again.  Any suggestions?

> David Faught wrote:
> >> Thanks very much!  Your class works just fine.  Now I just need to
> >> include a few more things without breaking it, or figure out why the
> >> one I have doesn't work the same way.  And thanks very much for the
> >> OpenGL extension loader fix too.  That actually makes some choices a
> >> little harder because I can approach my project with a wider scope.
> >
> > Okay, I was able to get some simple examples to work based on your
> > COpenGLPanel class with some minor changes, up to and including some
> > trivial shader programs.  But when I try to use the COpenGLPanel as an
> > element in a simple UI layout with a few other elements, I'm back to
> > the same error again.  Any suggestions?
>
> Ah, yes. Now I understand what you're doing. The *top-level* player must
> be a CPanel and it needs to hold the offset for the (embedded) OpenGL
> player. The effect you're seeing comes from trying to use a panel as an
> embedded player where a panel is specifically designed as a top-level
> (windowed) player. The effect you're seeing comes from it trying to be a
> Tweak window which it will when it's embedded in another Tweak player.
>
> So the solution is two-fold:
> 1) Make the top-level player be a CPanel; have it record the offset
> (like in my example)
> 2) Have either the embedded OpenGL player ask for its world's offset
> (the world will be the panel) or have the panel forward the offset to
> the embedded player - the latter is the better solution if you want to
> use the OpenGL player in both Morphic as well as Tweakish environments