Re: [GtkGLExt] Problem with shared lists

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 15:15 +0000, Carlos Pereira wrote: 
> Definitely it seems that when a GLContext (for a given drawing area) is 
> removed, shared pre-compiled OpenGL lists already made are no longer 
> available for new GLContexts (new drawing areas), though they still work 
> in old GLContexts. This problem did not exist with GTKGLArea, I just 
> confirmed with some old code. Clearly this is a GtkGLExt-specific issue, 
> either I am not using GtkGLExt correctly or there is a bug in GtkGLExt.
> 
> This problem should affect any app supporting multiple, independent, top 
> windows, each one with a GL area (windows can be created and removed, as 
> long as at least one window exists at any given moment, not necessarily 
> the first window, created when the app started).
> 
> Can someone help me on this? shall I copy the GLContext of a top window 
> (where the shared lists information is kept) before it is removed? to where?

Please file a bug on this at bugzilla.gnome.org.  It would help a lot
with tracking this down if you could provide a reduced test case that
demonstrates the problem.

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Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>