How to use SDL with OGRE?

Question

When I go to use OGRE with SDL (as described in this article), I seem to be having trouble with a second window that appears behind my main render window. Basically, the co

Answer 1

I ended up figuring this out on my own. The problem ends up being that OGRE's Mac GL backend does not honor the currentGLContext option, so the best solution is to change to SDL 1.3 (directly from Subversion, as of time of writing) and use the SDL_CreateWindowFrom call to start getting events from a window created by OGRE. It should also be noted that the OGRE window needs to have the macAPI set to cocoa, or else SDL won't recognize the window handle.

Answer 2

I see that you already solved your problem, but not all users will be content with downgrading SDL to 1.3. You can use SDL2 and an SDL2 window created via SDL_CreateWindow with OGRE. The code would look something like this:

if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) {
    OGRE_EXCEPT(Ogre::Exception::ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "Cannot initialize SDL2!",
        "BaseApplication::setup");
}

Ogre::Root *root = new Ogre::Root();
root->restoreConfig();
root->initialise(false);

Ogre::NameValuePairList params; // ogre window / render system params
SDL_Window *sdlWindow = SDL_CreateWindow("myWindow", posX, posY, width, height, vflags);
// see SDL_CreateWindow docs / examples for how to populate posX, posY, width, height, and vflags according to your needs

SDL_SysWMinfo wmInfo;
SDL_VERSION(&wmInfo.version);
if (SDL_GetWindowWMInfo(sdlWindow, &wmInfo) == SDL_FALSE) {
    OGRE_EXCEPT(Ogre::Exception::ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
        "Couldn't get WM Info! (SDL2)",
        "BaseApplication::setup");
}

params.insert(std::make_pair("macAPI", "cocoa"));
params.insert(std::make_pair("macAPICocoaUseNSView", "true"));

// grab a string representing the NSWindow pointer
Ogre::String winHandle = Ogre::StringConverter::toString((unsigned long)wmInfo.info.cocoa.window);

// assign the NSWindow pointer to the parentWindowHandle parameter
params.insert(std::make_pair("parentWindowHandle", winHandle));

Ogre::RenderWindow *ogreWindow = root->createRenderWindow("myWindowTitle", width, height, isFullscreen, &params);
// see OGRE documentation on how to populate width, height, and isFullscreen to suit your needs

// create OGRE scene manager, camera, viewports, etc