[osg-users] glGetString returning NULL

[sherman wilcox]

Thanks for the reply - I am running osgViewer in single threaded mode
- still returns NULL. The drawable trick works as expected, but I
don't understand why this doesn't work in the main render loop when in
single threaded mode. I *think* this worked in 2.4. Almost positive.
Anyway, here's a simple example. glGetString fails in the loop but
succeeds in the drawable. Note the usage of single threaded mode. I'm
not so concerned about having to move this code to a drawable, but
perhaps this is indicative of a larger issue?





#include <iostream>

#include <osgDB/ReadFile>
#include <osgViewer/Viewer>
#include <osgViewer/ViewerEventHandlers>
#include <osgGA/TrackballManipulator>



class CglGetString : public osg::Drawable
{
public:
  CglGetString()
  {
    setUseDisplayList(false);
  };

  virtual bool isSameKindAs(const Object* obj) const { return
dynamic_cast<const CglGetString*>(obj)!=NULL; }
  virtual Object* cloneType() const { return new CglGetString(); }
  virtual Object* clone(const osg::CopyOp& copyop) const { return new
CglGetString(); }

  virtual void drawImplementation(osg::RenderInfo& renderInfo) const
  {
    char* extensions = (char*)glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS);
  }

protected:
};


int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  osg::ArgumentParser arguments(&argc,argv);

  osgViewer::Viewer viewer(arguments);

  viewer.setThreadingModel(osgViewer::Viewer::SingleThreaded);
  osg::Referenced::setThreadSafeReferenceCounting(true);

  viewer.addEventHandler(new osgViewer::WindowSizeHandler);
  viewer.addEventHandler(new osgViewer::StatsHandler);
  viewer.setCameraManipulator(new osgGA::TrackballManipulator);

  // load the data
  osg::ref_ptr<osg::Node> loadedModel = osgDB::readNodeFiles(arguments);

  if (!loadedModel)
  {
    std::cout << arguments.getApplicationName() <<": No data loaded"
<< std::endl;
    return 1;
  }

  osg::ref_ptr<osg::Group> group = new osg::Group();
  group->addChild(loadedModel.get());

  if(1)
  {
    osg::Geode *geode = new osg::Geode();
    geode->addDrawable(new CglGetString());
    group->addChild(geode);
  }

  viewer.setSceneData( group.get() );

  viewer.realize();

  while(!viewer.done())
  {
    viewer.frame();
    char* extensions = (char*)glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS);
  }

  return 0;
}






On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Gordon Tomlinson
<gordon at gordon-tomlinson.com> wrote:
> This will in most case always return NULL in OSG 2.x and above
>
> You Have to do OpenGL calls where in the Processes/Thread that has the
> OpenGL context  which in OSG is the Draw Processes, so you have to do
> anything with OpenGL in  Draw Call callbacks
>
> You cannot do OpenGL calls in the App Process/Thread as your doing below (
> UNLESS you have OSG in Single Thread MODE )
>
>
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:osg-users-bounces at lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of sherman
> wilcox
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:29 PM
> To: OpenSceneGraph Users
> Subject: [osg-users] glGetString returning NULL
>
> Running latest version of OSG in SVN, calling glGetString(...) from
> main render loop (single threaded osgViewer). Like this:
>
>  while(viewer.done() == false)
>  {
>    viewer.frame();
>
>    char* extensions = (char*)glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS);
>  }
>
>
> extensions is always NULL. Am I doing something wrong here? Could
> someone else test this?
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