[sldev] Media Rendering Plugin Framework Interaction

[Philippe (Merov) Bossut]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Whitely <
daniel.whitely at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have some questions concerning the new Media Rendering Plugin Frame
> Work.Is it possible to capture mouse and keyboard input on a prim (i.e a
> plane which represents an  application window) inside the virtual world
> and pass them to the external application that the prim represents? This
> would become handy for application sharing. I've read your MediaWiki,
> but this functionality is nowhere described or clearly stated, aside
> from some hints in the Media Plugin System Messages.
>
> Is someone working on or already exists an project showing this feature?
>

First, the current implementation of the new pluginapi in Snowglobe is not
complete. In particular, we do not have the whole media-on-a-prim stuff that
has been developed internally. I have as a task to merge that in trunk in
the next Snowglobe 1.3 release (https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-301).
First though, we need to stabilize and ship 1.2...

As for capturing input, it is possible to capture mouse events and pass them
to the plugin. If you look into the current Snowglobe trunk code base, there
is an example plugin doing just that in
indra/test_apps/llplugintest/demo_media_plugin_2.cpp (it's a simple "draw
brush" on the animated surface). There is however little documentation on
all this right now that is available. We are working on it though.

For keyboard capture though, I don't think there's any provision right now
to pass those events to the plugin. That's something that Aimee already
pointed out in her earlier experiments. Something to think about then.

Cheers,
- Merov
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