[Qt-interest] MDI'd OpenGL

[Claudio Vaccani]

Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch wrote:
> Claudio Vaccani wrote on Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:58 AM:
> 
>> ... If, however, I minimize the application window before the
>> first plot shows up, I end up with an empty subwindow that looks like
>> it didn't get a valid OpenGL context and that reacts quite strangely
>> to user input(can't be moved, minimize/maximize/close buttons hardly
>> work). 
> 
> Is this on Mac OS X using Cocoa Qt? There is a known bug with regards to QGLWidgets not properly initialized when they are invisible (e.g. in a scrollbar's invisible part) at the time of widget creation.
> 
>   http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8580
> 
> Might be related (this is not an issue however on Windows or Linux). Unfortunatelly this won't be fixed: "Out of scope". But the original bug reporter, Alan, mentioned a workaround, see issue above.
> 
> Cheers, Oliver

Thanks for the link. Though it seems to be a similar problem, I'm afraid
that this is actually happening on Linux (haven't tried Windows yet).
Then again that's probably a good thing. I'm still hoping that I'm just
overlooking something completely obvious  ;-)

    Cheers
      Claudio