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using WGL Extensions

Posted Sunday, 17 January, 2010 - 00:01 by HangDude in

hello!

I'm trying to synchronize two displays for stereo vision on a quadro card using a Genlock card. Therefore I need access to the wglJoinSwapGroupNV (and friends) method. What would be the best way to do this using OpenTK?
I would really dislike having to switch away from OpenTK just because of this.

Thank you in advance,
Philipp

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Re: using WGL Extensions

Posted Sunday, 17 January, 2010 - 12:21 by the Fiddler

OpenTK doesn't expose this extension right now, but please add a feature request and I will look into adding it in a future version.

In the meantime, it is quite easy to p/invoke the necessary functions by hand:

using System;
using System.RuntimeInteropServices;
 
static class Wgl
{
    // WGL_swap_group extension
    public delegate bool wglJoinSwapGroupNV(IntPtr dc, uint group);
    public delegate bool wglBindSwapBarrierNV(uint group, uint barrier);
    public delegate bool wglQuerySwapGroupNV(IntPtr dc, out uint group, out uint barrier);
    ...
 
    // Necessary "core" WGL functions
    [DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint = "wglGetProcAddress", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
    extern static IntPtr GetProcAddress(string lpszProc);
    [DllImport("opengl32.dll", EntryPoint = "wglGetCurrentDC", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
    extern static IntPtr GetCurrentDC();
 
    public static readonly wglJoinSwapGroupNV JoinSwapGroupNV;
    public static readonly wglBindSwapBarrierNV BindSwapBarrierNV;
    public static readonly wglQuerySwapGroupNV QuerySwapGroupNV;
    ...
 
    public static Wgl()
    {
        JoinSwapGroupNV = Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(
            GetProcAddress("wglJoinSwapGroupNV"),
            typeof(wglJoinSwapGroupNV));
        BindSwapBarrierNV = Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(
            GetProcAddress("wglBindSwapBarrierNV"),
            typeof(wglJoinSwapGroupNV));
        ...
    }
}
 
// Usage: create an OpenGL context (through GLControl) and use WGL_swap_group normally.
IntPtr dc = Wgl.GetCurrentDC();
int group = 1;
Wgl.JoinSwapGroupNV(dc, group);