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Help with Tutorial

Posted Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 20:09 by oafak in

I am new to OpenTK, OpenGL but experienced with C++ and C#. (I downloaded opentk-0.9.8-2). The first exercise with QuickStart worked perfectly in my VisualStudio 2008. Trying to go step-by-step to create a GLControl in a Windows Form was NOT successful:
1. I did not see any "Garbage" as was expected to when I added the GLContol to the form
2. I did not get a black page on the form when I first ran it as expected. Instead, I got a form with a beige background.
3. Nothing else showed up on the control afterwards. The expected yellow triangle was not shown.
I will be grateful for any assistance I can get on these please. In addition, I would be pleased to know if this can work with WPF controls.

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the Fiddler's picture

Re: Help with Tutorial

Posted Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 20:15 by the Fiddler

1. The Form should not show any garbage when you add the GLControl. Instead, it should display the color specified by the BackgroundColor (or BackColor) property.

2 and 3. Make sure the GLControl is actually visible. Use the "Bring To Front" menu option to bring it to the front of the z-stack and make sure its size is larger than 0 and that it fits inside the form Bounds (alternatively, you can set Dock = DockStyle.Fill; for testing purposes).

If it still doesn't work as expected, consider attaching your project here (source only, no need for OpenTK.dll) and someone will take a look. This will also help us improve documentation to avoid similar issues in the future.

oafak's picture

Re: Help with Tutorial

Posted Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 22:43 by oafak

Thanks for your patience. I have tried your suggestions and still I have not succeeded. I deliberately allowed the form window to be slightly larger than the GLControl. Requested that they both be painted Skyblue and I am sure that the GLControl (glControl1 in my code) is in front. To confirm this, I deliberately added a Windows button intersecting the Form and the GLControl so that the order is clearly shown. The first code is the Form.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using OpenTK.Graphics.OpenGL;
using OpenTK.Graphics.OpenGL.Enums;
using OpenTK.Graphics;
 
namespace WinGLTest01
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        bool loaded = false;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
 
        private void glControl1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Dock = DockStyle.Fill; 
            loaded = true;
            GL.ClearColor(Color.SkyBlue);
 
        }
 
        private void glControl1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            if (loaded) GL.ClearColor(Color.SkyBlue);
            Form1.ActiveForm.BackColor = Color.SkyBlue;
        }
 
 
    }
}

This is followed by the generated code by the designer:

namespace WinGLTest01
{
    partial class Form1
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing && (components != null))
            {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }
 
        #region Windows Form Designer generated code
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.glControl1 = new OpenTK.GLControl();
            this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            this.SuspendLayout();
            // 
            // glControl1
            // 
            this.glControl1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
            this.glControl1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 7);
            this.glControl1.Name = "glControl1";
            this.glControl1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(261, 243);
            this.glControl1.TabIndex = 0;
            this.glControl1.VSync = true;
            this.glControl1.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.glControl1_Load);
            this.glControl1.Paint += new System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler(this.glControl1_Paint);
            // 
            // button1
            // 
            this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(226, 232);
            this.button1.Name = "button1";
            this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(57, 28);
            this.button1.TabIndex = 1;
            this.button1.Text = "button1";
            this.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
            // 
            // Form1
            // 
            this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);
            this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
            this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(284, 262);
            this.Controls.Add(this.glControl1);
            this.Controls.Add(this.button1);
            this.Name = "Form1";
            this.Text = "Form1";
            this.ResumeLayout(false);
 
        }
 
        #endregion
 
        private OpenTK.GLControl glControl1;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;
    }
}

And lastly, the program source:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;
 
namespace WinGLTest01
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
    }
}
the Fiddler's picture

Re: Help with Tutorial

Posted Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 - 23:01 by the Fiddler

You are missing a call to glControl1.SwapBuffers() in your glControl1_Paint event handler.

Moreover, you are likely hitting issue #1071: Not firing Load event for GLControl.

As a temporary workaround, you can add the following code to your Form1 class:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
    base.OnLoad(e);
    glControl1.CreateControl();
    glControl1_Load(glControl1, EventArgs.Empty);
}