The reasoning behind this change is that source2 in -tools mode has a single OpenGL context that is used with multiple different windows. Some of those windows are created outside the engine (i.e. with Qt) and therefore we need to use SDL_CreateWindowFrom() to get an SDL_Window for those. The requirement for sharing an OpenGL context across multiple different windows is that each window has the same pixel format. To facilitate this, I now set SDL_HINT_VIDEO_WINDOW_SHARE_PIXEL_FORMAT for the main window before calling SDL_CreateWindowFrom(). When I do this, SDL_CreateWindowFrom() will:
1. Set the pixel format of the returned window to the same pixel format as this SDL_Window passed in with the hint
2. The flag SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL will be set on the new window so it can be used for OpenGL rendering.
I only currently implemented this for Win32/WGL so implementing it for other platforms (i.e. X11) remains a TODO.
CR: SamL
Some pseudocode that shows how this is used in Source2:
HWND hExternalHwnd; // HWND that was established outside of SDL
// Create main window (happens inside platwindow.cpp)
SDL_Window *mainWindow = SDL_CreateWindow( , SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL .. );
// Create GL context, happens inside rendersystemgl
SDL_GLContext onlyContext = SDL_GL_CreateContext( mainWindow );
// Now I need to create another window from hEternalHwnd for my swap chain that will have the same pixel format as mainWindow, so set the hint
SDL_SetHint( SDL_HINT_VIDEO_WINDOW_SHARE_PIXEL_FORMAT, CFmtStr( %p, mainWindow) );
// Create the secondary window. This returned window will have SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL set and share a pixel format with mainWindow from the hint
SDL_Window *secondaryWindow = SDL_CreateWindowFrom( hExternalHwnd );
// To render to the main window:
SDL_GL_MakeCurrent( mainWindow, onlyContext );
// Do some rendering to main window
// To render to the secondary window:
SDL_GLMakeCurrent( secondaryWindow, onlyContext );
// Do some rendering to secondary window
Matthias Bentrup 2012-08-09 12:53:17 PDT
With OpenGL 4.3 the ARB added a new context flag for context reset isolation
and renamed the existing ES2 profile bit to ES profile bit, as it can be used
to request GLES 3 compatible contexts, too.
This patch adds these changes to SDL on Linux and Windows.
Also SDL lacks the ability to create shared contexts. This patch also adds a
new GL attribute to enable context sharing. As casting a GL context to int is
not portable, I added only a boolean attribute
SDL_GL_SHARE_WITH_CURRENT_CONTEXT, which makes the new context share resources
with the context current on the creating thread.
This required a small public API change: SDL_GL_SetSwapInterval() now accepts
negative values, and SDL_GL_GetSwapInterval() doesn't report errors anymore
(if it can't work, it'll return zero as a reasonable default).
If you need to test for errors, such as a lack of swap_control_tear support,
check the results of SDL_GL_SetSwapInterval() when you set your desired
value.
