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Failed to swap buffers for context 196608 current. Error: 6

Posted Friday, 23 September, 2011 - 19:29 by rajaron in

I have a UserControl in a .NET Windows Form that includes a GLControl for processing raw video from disk. I have the import working fine with the UserControl in the main UI. However, once the import is started, the user can't interrupt the process. To allow that, I am trying to do the import loop in a background thread of the UserControl using the methods below. And it all works fine, except that when it completes, and I try calling Demosaic(1) from a Next button below the UserControl, then I get the following error when it tries to do the GLControl.SwapBuffers() at the end of the rendering:

Failed to swap buffers for context 196608 current. Error: 6

From other messages in this forum, I found that Error 6 means "invalid handle". It seems that the
glControl1.Context.MakeCurrent(null);
at the end of the loop in the background thread is not returning the GraphicsContext to the main UI thread. How to resolve this error?

public void Import(int fCount)
{
    this.frameCount = fCount;
    Thread tImport;
    tImport = new Thread(new ThreadStart(DoWork));
    tImport.IsBackground = true;
    glControl1.Context.MakeCurrent(null);
    tImport.Start();
}
 
private void DoWork()
{
        // Make the GLControl Graphics Context current on this background thread
        glControl1.MakeCurrent();
 
        SdFrame theFrame;
        for (int frameNumber = 0; frameNumber < frameCount; frameNumber++)
        {
            // Read the frame from disk
            theFrame = sdReader.GetFrame(frameNumber, caseId);
 
            // Demosaic according to the selected algorithm using OpenTK
            // - loads raw image as a texture and applies shaders to demosaic
            this.Demosaic(theFrame);
 
            // Save the image
            // - GrabScreenshot from the framebuffer as a Bitmap and then save
            SaveImage(this.Image, theFrame.DateTaken);
        }
 
        // Make the GLControl GraphicsContext current on the main thread
        glControl1.Context.MakeCurrent(null);
}
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the Fiddler's picture

Re: Failed to swap buffers for context 196608 current. ...

Posted Wednesday, 28 September, 2011 - 08:34 by the Fiddler

Once you call glControl1.Context.MakeCurrent(null) the context will not be current on any thread, resulting in the error you see. Once you main the context non-current on the background thread, you need to call glControl1.MakeCurrent() on the main UI thread to restore the context.

The rules are (relatively) simple:

  1. An OpenGL context can only be current on a single thread. A context that is not current on any thread is considered non-current.
  2. To issue OpenGL commands on a given thread, you need a current context on that thread.
  3. MakeCurrent() makes a non-current context current on the thread it is issued on. It is an error to call MakeCurrent() on a context that is current on a different thread (that context must be made non-current first).
  4. MakeCurrent(null) makes the context of the current thread non-current. You must use MakeCurrent() to make that context current again.
rajaron's picture

Re: Failed to swap buffers for context 196608 current. ...

Posted Wednesday, 28 September, 2011 - 16:36 by rajaron

Thank you for the clarification on the context switching rules. I added the glControl1.MakeCurrent() on completion of the background thread, and it worked like a charm!