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Should OpenTK work if you use an external xserver?

Posted Monday, 29 December, 2008 - 22:52 by djlawler in

I am working on a program in IronPython/OpenTK that runs well on Windows. It also seems to run pretty well on a vmware/Ubuntu 8.04 machine (after I compiled the most recent version of mono on it). Out of idle curiosity I tried to connect to the vm with Cygwin/X and Xming and run the program and in all cases it dies quickly with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File OpenTK, line unknown, in .cctor
File mscorlib, line unknown, in get_Item
File OpenTK, line unknown, in .cctor
File pyBzEdit, line unknown, in Initialize
File OpenGlForm, line unknown, in __init__
File OpenGlForm, line unknown, in InitializeComponent
File OpenTK, line unknown, in .ctor
File OpenTK, line unknown, in get_Default
SystemError: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice

Is this expected behavior? If not I would be happy to dig into this a bit more deaply. If so, not a big deal...just wondering!

Happy New Year and thanks for a great project!

David

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the Fiddler's picture

Re: Should OpenTK work if you use an external xserver?

Posted Monday, 29 December, 2008 - 23:04 by the Fiddler

In theory it should work, but I've never tested with a remote xserver. It might be getting confused with platform detection.

Can you rerun the application with a debug version of opentk? The extra output should give a clue as to what is going wrong. You can use the debug dll from opentk 0.9.1 or recompile with mono for better results (just head to Build/ and execute mono Build.exe mono debug. You'll also need nant.)

kanato's picture

Re: Should OpenTK work if you use an external xserver?

Posted Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 - 03:31 by kanato

I tried this myself, and got the following stacktrace. It looks like there is a failure in the static X11XrandrDisplayDevice constructor. I tried throwing some debug information in there, but I wasn't getting any output.

Launching example: Examples.Tutorial.T03_Immediate_Mode_Cube
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice ---> System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for OpenTK.Platform.X11.X11XrandrDisplayDevice ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Object].get_Item (Int32 index) [0x00000]
at OpenTK.Platform.X11.X11XrandrDisplayDevice..cctor () [0x00000]
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice..cctor () [0x00000]
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at OpenTK.Graphics.GraphicsMode.get_Default () [0x00000]
at OpenTK.Graphics.GraphicsMode..ctor (ColorFormat color, Int32 depth) [0x00000]
at Examples.Tutorial.T03_Immediate_Mode_Cube..ctor () [0x00000]
at Examples.Tutorial.T03_Immediate_Mode_Cube.Main () [0x00000]
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&)
at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000]
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000]
at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke (System.Object obj, System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000]
at Examples.ExampleLauncher.RunExample () [0x00000]