[Interest] How to know bindTexture failure

[Samuel Rødal]

On 10/08/2012 12:40 PM, Calogero Mauceri wrote:
>
> Il 08/10/2012 12.34, Samuel Rødal ha scritto:
>> On 10/05/2012 05:21 PM, Calogero Mauceri wrote:
>>> Il 05/10/2012 17.04, Samuel Rødal ha scritto:
>>>> On 10/05/2012 04:46 PM, Calogero Mauceri wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> is there a way to know programmatically whether the
>>>>> QGLWidget::bindTexture function fails?
>>>>> Sometime my bindTexture fails, I can see in the log file there is a line
>>>>> reporting the binding failure:
>>>>>
>>>>> texture upload failed, error code 0x500, enum: 3553 (de1)
>>>> Hmm, looks like the error reporting is a bit lacking. If you have your
>>>> own build of Qt you can uncomment the line that says #define
>>>> QGL_BIND_TEXTURE_DEBUG in qgl.cpp to get more detailed debug output from
>>>> the bind function.
>>> Thanks Samuel for your reply.
>>> We do have our own build of Qt, but I really would avoid to change them,
>>> it would be very difficult for us to keep our changes in sync with the
>>> new Qt distributions.
>> I didn't mean a permanent change, just a temporary one to help figure
>> out what step in the texture upload that goes wrong.
>>
>> If it only fails in certain circumstances, maybe you could file a bug
>> about that.
>>
>
> Actually it fails when the texture image is big. How much big is machine
> dependent.
> That's why I would like to know whether the texture loading fails in
> order to properly warn the user.

True, we could check if the image exceeds the max texture size, since we 
already have that information elsewhere in the GL module. But yeah, the 
error should also be reported through the API, maybe via an enum.

--
Samuel