glScissors corrupts other part of the window

[Ramya Maithreyi]

In order to render an image only to a part of the window, I have used glScissors and have enabled the GL_SCISSORS_TEST.

I see that the other parts of the window is corrupted.
What might be the cause?

Have attached the snapshot of a sample application using glSciccors.
Thank you.
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6016/glsciccors.jpg

[Ilian Dinev]

Maybe forgetting to disable it before your next call to glClear() ?

[Ramya Maithreyi]

nope. i actually do not want that part of the window to be disturbed by any means.
in my original application we have UI placed there.

Anyways what i wanted is glAddSwapHintRectWIN.
I implemented the above API using the following code



// Get a pointer to the extension function.
typedef void (WINAPI *FNSWAPHINT)(GLint, GLint, GLsizei, GLsizei);
fnSwapHint = (FNSWAPHINT)wglGetProcAddress("glAddSwapHintRectWIN");

// Actual call to glAddSwapHintRectWIN.
if (fnSwapHint != NULL)
(*fnSwapHint)(0, 0, 100, 100);


But now the problem is, we have we more child controls of the window placed in the view area. When i redraw the window, all the child controls disappear. Is there any way to avoid that. The clid controls are transparent. So i cannot have a specified rect to avoid.

[mark ds]

Are you using GDI to render standard windows controls over opengl? Never mix GDI with opengl - it CAN be made to work with some hacks, but it is hardware/driver/OS specific.

Also, glAddSwapHintRectWIN doesn't work with hardware accelerated opengl.

[Ramya Maithreyi]

Yes. The application UI is developed using xaml framework.
If we need to have such window controls over the frame rendered by opengl, what is the suggested mechanism to handle it?