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antonmills
antonmills

Reputation: 171

OpenFrameworks - minus the GL window

I have a project that involves OpenCV among some other media related functionality and after playing with OpenFrameworks it seems to be perfect for the task, well nearly perfect ;)

This project is actually a Flash project and I have a working connection to C++ for all the image processing for speed. The problem is that OpenFrameworks require the following code to init before the ofRunApp:

ofAppGlutWindow window;
ofSetupOpenGL(&window, 1024,768, OF_WINDOW); // <-------- setup the GL context

Is there an easy way to use the OpenCV related functionality in OpenFrameworks without opening any window? Just for the record I would prefer to use OpenFrameworks rather than vanilla OpenCV for the flexibility of OF and it's other features.

Thanks in advance, a.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 801

Answers (1)

ben
ben

Reputation: 1849

There is no 'official' way to do this with openFrameworks.

Since openFrameworks has swappable renderers, you could write one to do this. But this seems to be a lot of work because many openFrameworks internal rely on a window and GL context.

You can find he most promising attempts to solve this problem here and here. Maybe you can search the openFrameworks on your own to find probably more. Even better: feel free to start a new topic to get people see that there is a need for headless rendering.

Upvotes: 1

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