forcing users to use osgDB::readRef*File() methods. The later is preferable as it closes a potential threading bug when using paging databases in conjunction
with the osgDB::Registry Object Cache. This threading bug occurs when one thread gets an object from the Cache via an osgDB::read*File() call where only
a pointer to the object is passed back, so taking a reference to the object is delayed till it gets reassigned to a ref_ptr<>, but at the same time another
thread calls a flush of the Object Cache deleting this object as it's referenceCount is now zero. Using osgDB::readREf*File() makes sure the a ref_ptr<> is
passed back and the referenceCount never goes to zero.
To ensure the OSG builds when OSG_PROVIDE_READFILE is to OFF the many cases of osgDB::read*File() usage had to be replaced with a ref_ptr<> osgDB::readRef*File()
usage. The avoid this change causing lots of other client code to be rewritten to handle the use of ref_ptr<> in place of C pointer I introduced a serious of
templte methods in various class to adapt ref_ptr<> to the underly C pointer to be passed to old OSG API's, example of this is found in include/osg/Group:
bool addChild(Node* child); // old method which can only be used with a Node*
tempalte<class T> bool addChild(const osg::ref_ptr<T>& child) { return addChild(child.get()); } // adapter template method
These changes together cover 149 modified files, so it's a large submission. This extent of changes are warrent to make use of the Object Cache
and multi-threaded loaded more robust.
git-svn-id: http://svn.openscenegraph.org/osg/OpenSceneGraph/trunk@15164 16af8721-9629-0410-8352-f15c8da7e697
osgcamera -r 5 --vbo cow.osg
Which repeats construction of the viewer 5 times in a row, and enables VBO, and on each repeat a new model is loaded.
osgcamera -r 2 --vbo --shared cow.osg
Which repeats construction of the viewer 2 times in a row, and enables VBO, and on each loads the model once and shares it between each instance of the viewer.
as osg::GraphicsOperation. Unpdated parts of OSG depending upon these.
Added a virtaul bool valid() method to osg::GraphicsContext to allow apps to
test whether a valid graphis context has been created or not.
added frame stamp updating and update traversal to osgViewer::Scene/Viewer.
Updated osgcamera example to use new Viewer API calls instead of using local
rendering calls.
the viewport, the clear colour and the subgraph needing rendered. This is done
transparently so all existing functionality will behave as before. What it does
add is the ability to set a SceneView directly by a single osg::CameraNode when required.
