[GEM-dev] "context" with [gemcontrol] or "gemoutput"

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

james tittle wrote:

> ...but one thing I'm not understanding:  when I have multiple 
> [gemcontrol]'s, a "render on" message to one turns all of them on:  it 
> seems like this should be seperated, right?  Especially if we're gonna 
> have the ability to alter the frame rate...

right, it is just not yet implemented... (as it would have involved 
further changes to GemMan, and i was just happy that at least i got 
multiple windows rendering (more or less) the same....


now what comes to my mind:

should things like background-colour, viewpoint, etc be handled in the 
GemOutput (as [gemwindow]) or in [gemcontrol] ?
i always thought they could be handled by GemOutput, but i am not so 
sure about this anymore (i guess i put it into GemOutput since 
[gemcontrol] was still static and i wanted to be able to change the 
viewport on the different windows independently.

i (now) mean that for a clear separation, "context" (again probably 
missusing this term) details should be handled within [gemcontrol].
but then we would need some way of synchronizing various independent 
[gemcontrol]s (e.g. for cave-like applications), probably again by 
associating the context with a symbolic id (the same as in [gemhead])

i guess this might make sense.

mfg.asd.r
IOhannes


> 
> hmm,

:-)

> jamie