Can anyone explain why glXGetVisualFromFBConfig is failing, the FbConfigs I have seem to be valid and match what I request but passing the FBConfig to glXGetVisualFromFBConfig does not return a visual and i have been unable to figure out why.
import sys
import xcb
import xcb.glx
import xcb.composite
import xcb.xproto as xproto
import Xlib
from Xlib.display import Display
from ctypes import *
from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLU import *
from OpenGL import GLX
try:
from OpenGL.GLX import struct__XDisplay
except ImportError as err:
from OpenGL.raw._GLX import struct__XDisplay
class alpha_glx_example:
xlib = cdll.LoadLibrary('libX11.so')
xlib.XOpenDisplay.argtypes = [c_char_p]
xlib.XOpenDisplay.restype = POINTER(struct__XDisplay)
xdisplay = xlib.XOpenDisplay(None)
display = Xlib.display.Display()
attrs = []
def __init__(self):
self.xserver = xcb.connect()
self.xclient = self.xserver.core
self.setup = self.xserver.get_setup()
self.canvas = self.setup.roots[0]
self.root_window = self.canvas.root
self.depth = self.setup.roots[0].root_depth
self.visual = self.setup.roots[0].root_visual
composite_ext = self.load_extension('Composite', xcb.composite.key)
render_ext = self.load_extension('RENDER', xcb.render.key)
glx_ext = self.load_extension('GLX', xcb.glx.key)
""" lets setup are opengl settings and create the context for our window """
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_RENDER_TYPE, GLX.GLX_RGBA_BIT)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_DRAWABLE_TYPE, GLX.GLX_WINDOW_BIT)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_X_RENDERABLE, True)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_RED_SIZE, 8)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_GREEN_SIZE, 8)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_BLUE_SIZE, 8)
self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_ALPHA_SIZE, 8)
#~ self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_DEPTH_SIZE, 24)
#~ self.add_attribute(GLX.GLX_DOUBLEBUFFER, True)
config_count = c_int()
configs = GLX.glXChooseFBConfig(self.xdisplay, self.display.get_default_screen(), self.get_attributes(), byref(config_count))
if config_count.value is 0 or configs.__class__ is "<class 'OpenGL.raw._GLX.LP_struct_anon_103'>":
sys.exit('no matching configs found')
print self.attrs
print '\nfind visual from choose fbconfig %s found' % config_count.value
count = 0
# lets poke the configs to make sure we are getting what we expect from glXChooseFBConfig
for i in range(0, config_count.value):
config = configs[i]
count += 1
print 'count %d' % count
xrender = c_int()
GLX.glXGetFBConfigAttrib(self.xdisplay, config, GLX.GLX_X_RENDERABLE, byref(xrender))
print 'xrender = %d' % xrender.value
red_size = c_int()
print GLX.glXGetFBConfigAttrib(self.xdisplay, config, GLX.GLX_RED_SIZE, byref(red_size))
print 'red size = %s' % red_size.value
test = c_int()
print GLX.glXGetFBConfigAttrib(self.xdisplay, config, GLX.GLX_ALPHA_SIZE, byref(test))
print 'alpha size = %d' %test.value
picture_formats = render_ext.QueryPictFormats().reply()
# for some reason glXGetVisualFromFBConfig fails to find any visuals
for i in range(0, config_count.value):
count += 1
config = configs[i]
visual = GLX.glXGetVisualFromFBConfig(self.xdisplay, config)
print visual
if 'OpenGL.raw._GLX.LP_struct_anon' in str(visual.__class__):
continue
def glx_visual_info(self, visual):
print('GLX Visual Info')
print('rgb depth = %s' % visual.depth)
print('red mask = %s' % visual.red_mask)
print('green mask = %s' % visual.green_mask)
print('blue mask = %s' % visual.blue_mask)
print('colour map = %s' % visual.colormap_size)
print('screen id = %s' % visual.screen)
print('bits per rgb = %s' % visual.bits_per_rgb)
print('visual = %s' % visual.visual)
print('visual id = %s' % visual.visualid)
def add_attribute(self, setting, value=None):
"""just to nicely add opengl parameters"""
self.attrs.append(setting)
if value:
self.attrs.append(value)
def get_attributes(self):
""" return our parameters in the expected structure"""
attrs = self.attrs + [0, 0]
return (c_int * len(attrs))(*attrs)
def load_extension(self, name, xcb_key):
# test extension is present
extension = self.xclient.QueryExtension(len(name), name).reply()
if extension.present != 1:
print("%s not available" % name)
return
print('Using %s extension' % name)
return self.xserver(xcb_key)
if __name__ == "__main__":
alpha_glx_example()