Good morning everyone,

I am trying to migrate a simple library from GLFW to SDL 2.0 but i am having an "unusual" , at least for me, issue.

This is the code for displayCube :

void displayCube()
{
	glUseProgram(program);
	glBindVertexArray(vao);

	glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);
	glPushAttrib(GL_ALL_ATTRIB_BITS);

	if (wireFrame)
		glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_LINE);
	else
		glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_FILL);

	translate = glm::translate(glm::mat4(1.0), glm::vec3(-0.5, 0.0, 0.0));
	glUniformMatrix4fv(TranslateMat, 1, GL_FALSE, glm::value_ptr(translate));


	glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, NumVertices);

	glPopAttrib();
	glBindVertexArray(0);
}

This is the main loop :

.....................
//While application is running
		while (!running){
			//Handle Events on queue
			while (SDL_PollEvent(&e) != 0)
			{
				//User requests quit
				if (e.type == SDL_QUIT)
				{
					running = true;
				}
				
				if (e.type == SDL_KEYDOWN)
				{
					SDL_Scancode keyPressed = e.key.keysym.scancode;

					if (keyPressed == SDL_SCANCODE_W){
						if (wireFrame)
						{
							wireFrame = false;
							displayCube();

							//Update screen
							SDL_GL_SwapWindow(gWindow);

						}
						else
						{
							wireFrame = true;
							displayCube();

							//Update screen
							SDL_GL_SwapWindow(gWindow);
						}
						//std::cout << "wireframe value " << wireFrame << std::endl;
					}		
				}
			}
			displayCube();
			SDL_GL_SwapWindow(gWindow);
		}

You can see the result here :

(This happens way faster than is captured on video)

and when you close the window i have put a small delay before destroying it and you can see from the screen shot that the cube stablelizes .

Thanks.

You can see the result here :

"This video is private."

Hi ,
Sorry for that . I think it's fine now .

Pasting the link again just to make sure .

UPDATE/EDIT: I have solved the problem on my own . On the main Loop these 2 lines needed to be added in order to perform correctly .

glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.3, 1.0); //black color

I had forgot to clear the buffers before displayCube() was called again .

But i couldn't find it because instead for looking for something like this i though it had to do something with the vSync .

Hey ,

i am back with new troubles .

So i am past the point of integrating SDL2 alongside with OpenGL (and a variaty of other opensource libs such as assimp/glm/glew e.t.c) and i moved forward to put ImGUI on the game too .

For starters, what i did was create a .lib file out of ImGUI alongside with

imgui_impl_sdl_gl3.cpp and imgui_impl_sdl_gl3.h which are the example files for ImGUI + SDL2 + OpenGL in github -> https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/examples/sdl_opengl3_example .

I got the examples working fine (http://prntscr.com/bi9lzz) as you can see in the screenshot and ImGUI looks really cool indeed , but now i want to render also my cube inside the window .

According to the little documentation of ImGUi (most of it inside of imgui.cpp) this is a typical application skeleton :

        // Application init
        ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
        io.DisplaySize.x = 1920.0f;
        io.DisplaySize.y = 1280.0f;
        io.IniFilename = "imgui.ini";
        io.RenderDrawListsFn = my_render_function;  // Setup a render function, or set to NULL and call GetDrawData() after Render() to access the render data.
        // TODO: Fill others settings of the io structure
        // Load texture atlas
        // There is a default font so you don't need to care about choosing a font yet
        unsigned char* pixels;
        int width, height;
        io.Fonts->GetTexDataAsRGBA32(pixels, &width, &height);
        // TODO: At this points you've got a texture pointed to by 'pixels' and you need to upload that your your graphic system
        // TODO: Store your texture pointer/identifier (whatever your engine uses) in 'io.Fonts->TexID'
        // Application main loop
        while (true)
        {
            // 1) get low-level inputs (e.g. on Win32, GetKeyboardState(), or poll your events, etc.)
            // TODO: fill all fields of IO structure and call NewFrame
            ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
            io.DeltaTime = 1.0f/60.0f;
            io.MousePos = mouse_pos;
            io.MouseDown[0] = mouse_button_0;
            io.MouseDown[1] = mouse_button_1;
            io.KeysDown[i] = ...
            // 2) call NewFrame(), after this point you can use ImGui::* functions anytime
            ImGui::NewFrame();
            // 3) most of your application code here
            ImGui::Begin("My window");
            ImGui::Text("Hello, world.");
            ImGui::End();
            MyGameUpdate(); // may use ImGui functions
            MyGameRender(); // may use ImGui functions
            // 4) render & swap video buffers
            ImGui::Render();
            SwapBuffers();
        }

Considering it, i have created my main function :

int main(int, char**)
{
	int running = true;

	if (init() == false)
	{
		std::cout << "Init failed !!!" << std::endl;
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	

	initCube();
	// Setup ImGui binding
	ImGui_ImplSdlGL3_Init(gWindow);

	ImVec4 clear_color = ImColor(114, 144, 154);

	// Main loop
	bool done = false;
	while (!done)
	{
		SDL_Event event;
		while (SDL_PollEvent(&event))
		{
			ImGui_ImplSdlGL3_ProcessEvent(&event);
			if (event.type == SDL_QUIT)
				done = true;
		}
		ImGui_ImplSdlGL3_NewFrame(gWindow);

		// 1. Show a simple window
		// Tip: if we don't call ImGui::Begin()/ImGui::End() the widgets appears in a window automatically called "Debug"
		ImGui::SetNextWindowSize(ImVec2(100,100), ImGuiSetCond_FirstUseEver);
		ImGui::Begin("basicCube GUI");
		static float f = 0.0f;
		ImGui::Text("Hello, world!");
		ImGui::SliderFloat("float", &f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
		ImGui::ColorEdit3("clear color", (float*)&clear_color);
		ImGui::Button("Test button");
		ImGui::Text("Application average %.3f ms/frame (%.1f FPS)", 1000.0f / ImGui::GetIO().Framerate, ImGui::GetIO().Framerate);
		ImGui::End();

		// Rendering
		glViewport(0, 0, (int)ImGui::GetIO().DisplaySize.x, (int)ImGui::GetIO().DisplaySize.y);
		glClearColor(clear_color.x, clear_color.y, clear_color.z, clear_color.w);
		glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
		displayCube();
		ImGui::Render();
		SDL_GL_SwapWindow(gWindow);
	}

	close(); //Shuts down every little thing...
	return 0;
}

My problem is that there is no cube in my screen , just what you saw in the screen shot above .

If i try to render the cube alone it works fine , the problem seems to be when i mix ImGUI functions with mine .

Anybody got any ideas or has faced anything similar?

Thanks in advance .