QOpenGL in threads

[wydesenej]

Hi,

i am writing program with some threads and one thread painting some stream to QGLWidget.

If it runs as one thread application, painting is ok.

If it runs as multithread application (one thread for painting and others are for some control operations), painting is bad (painting starting not in the corner but at random position).

I tried lot of modifications, but it seems, that problem is threads.

I found in doc : "Please note that QGLContext is not thread safe."


Is there any possible to sovle this problem? please help.

[minimoog]

I don't how you render, but OpenGL is not thread safe.

[saman_artorious]

Is there any possible to sovle this problem? please help.
I never tried glWidget inside a thread, can you post your render n glpaint function please?
Maybe we can resolve this, despite incompatibility of opengl with threads.

[saman_artorious]

Hi,
Is there any possible to sovle this problem? please help.

As far as GPU is doing all the work asynchronously, CPU threads are pointless. Therefore, your application would always be single-threaded. (at least for rendering)

[wysota]

As far as GPU is doing all the work asynchronously, CPU threads are pointless. Therefore, your application would always be single-threaded. (at least for rendering)

That's not exactly true. You still have to push data into the GL pipeline using CPU.