[libavg-devel] Re: Div Node Rotations Patch

[Nick Hebner]

On 10/4/07, Ulrich von Zadow <uzadow at libavg.de> wrote:
>
> Ulrich von Zadow schrieb:
>
> > Nick Hebner schrieb:
> >> Well after a busy few days, I have finally found some time to work on
> >> this again. I have found that the problem that manifested itself after
> >> the words test is related to the change of resolution that this test
> >> caused. All of the other tests used the same resolution except
> >> testWords, and for some reason this caused problems with later tests.
> >> The  only thing that I have found to fix this is to delete the display
> >> engine on Player::stop() (shutting down the entire SDL system), and
> >> recreate it on Player::play(). I don't really like this, but it seems
> >> to work for now.
> >
> > Hm. I don't like that either, for two reasons. The first is that we're
> > probably hiding a state bug in that way (I assume that either OpenGL
> > state or SDLEngine state is broken at the end of playback), and the
> > second is that the tests now take twice as long to execute.
>
> I did some work on this issue and it only appears under Linux - Mac OS X
> is unaffected. My suspicion is that it's a bug somewhere in SDL or the
> linux graphics subsystem that kills the stencil setup on a window
> resize. I've changed the workaround to reset the SDL library only under
> linux and only when the window size actually changes. That way, the
> tests run almost as quickly as before :-).


Well, that is great. You are making some progress.

Anyway, Nick, if you still want to work on this, that would be great.
> Otherwise, I'll pick up from here. It might take some time, though.


Well I hate to just drop it, but I really just do not have the time right
now as I have started classes again. If I do find some time, I will try to
get some more work done, but like you, it will take some time for me as
well. We'll get it eventually :)

Cheers,
>
>    Uli
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