[visionegg] Re: (No Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:11:40 -0500

Hi Mason,

I can't reproduce your problem on Ubuntu Dapper amd64 with nVidia 87.76
drivers and a GeForce 6600 card. What kind of video card do you have in
your Windows PC? It could theoretically be a card/driver issue.

Cheers!
Andrew

Smith, Mason wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
>  
>
> Your version of test3.py didn't work for me.  I also tried updating to
> the bleeding edge, and it didn't help.  Like you, I found that
> everything works fine on a Mac.  The suggestion to alter the
> parameters of Text objects might work but would be clumsy to implement
> since my experiment uses many screens of text with different numbers
> of lines of text, which may not even be known until runtime.  Another
> thing I tried was to use a single Viewport and alter the stimuli
> parameter, but that didn't work.
>
>  
>
> Here's something that did work on my PC, though I'd prefer not to have
> to do this hack if there's a better way.  For some reason, if you draw
> the Viewport, call glReadPixels (or screen.get_framebuffer_as_image,
> which calls glReadPixels), and then draw the viewport a second time,
> it works.  The attached file contains code that does this for the last
> screen.  If this leads anyone to figure out a better solution, I'd be
> grateful to hear about it.
>
>  
>
> --Mason
>
>  
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Mark Halko [mailto:mhalko@xxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:42 PM
> *To:* Smith, Mason
> *Subject:* Re: [visionegg]
>
>  
>
> Hi Mason -
>
> I've noticed a bug with text objects that don't properly set their
> projection matrix in OpenGL.
>
>  
>
> If you try this code here, it should work (Your other test3.py worked
> just fine on my MacBook Pro, so it's hard to tell exactly what your
> problem is).  If it does work, then the problem was that the bug was
> causing later text objects to be drawn 'off-screen'.  Try updating
> your visionegg with the 'bleeding edge', which may fix it.
>
>  
>
> Note, the OpenGL code is really more of a hack, rather than something
> you should be doing.
>
>  
>
> The other people on the visionegg list are suggesting a nice
> workaround, by altering the properties of a single Text object, you
> won't have to worry about a second text object showing up.  
>
>  
>
> Mark
>
>  
>

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