Now, on OSX the java app gets a NSView/cocoaviewref. Is there some
member of NSView similar to the HWND on windows that I can pass to
my C process? The C process can then create a hardware accelerated
opengl rendering context from this 'handle' and render to the java
apps NSView.
I've looked at using Distributed Objects, however the C application
would need quite a bit of rework to make it fit into the Cocoa
application framework, so this is not an option. So, can a non cocoa
application communicate with a distributed object ?
Hi,
one option nobody's mentioned so far is that, on the Mac, you can
create transparent windows. So, your Java app could create a
transparent window and show it on top of the other app's window,
making it appear as if they were in the same window.
Not sure how one does that in Java, but at worst I'd guess you could
use JNI calls or so. I'm also not sure how one would take the OpenGL
view and draw it so parts of it are transparent, or whether there's a
way to make windows of two apps move as one together, but at least
it's a direction worth investigating.
Alternately, would it be possible to put all your non-Java code in a
JNI library and have the Java app load and call that? You'd merge both
apps into one, and thus avoid the issue of one not having access to
the other's window.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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