Ogre 2.0 + multiple windows = fail

[Boost113]

You don't seem to be using the Renderer bootstrap function.

I'm not using bootstrap because it calls CEGUI::System::create inside. So if I call bootstrap once per program I get only 1 ogre renderer which's probably not the thing I want. If I call one bootstrap per window I get "Already Initialized" exception. So that's why I'm using 2 renderers without a bootstrap. Is that wrong?

The bootstrap does a few things that aren't done if you directly create the renderer, for example the Ogre workspaces won't be created.
The function (that I just created) CEGUI::OgreRenderer::registerWindow allows creating a second renderer after bootstrapping to avoid this issue.

So you advice me to create OgreRenderers manually, one per window. And I don't want to call bootstrap after that, right?

If I don't create a workspace neither for window1 nor for window2, my program crashes. If I create only one workspace for winow1, it somewhat works but window 2 still has some weird glitches:

Adding to my last comment, I recommend that you first bootstrap the first renderer and then create the second one. This way the renderer should setup its own workspace and then you just need to create one that
clears the window.
It *should* be fine to just use the constructor but the registerWindow function might get some additional things at some point like linking the renderers together to share resources (if any actually need to be shared...).

Code for creating a workspace that clears the window: http://pastebin.com/XSW1KE60

I really need multiple windows to function properly. I don't care about scaling in runtime and I use non-captured mouse so I'm not interested in mouse constraining either. Would you kindly help me with some code that I tried making somewhat bearable? It works for both ogre 2.0 and 1.9 but the second window glitches in both(in different ways). Here's the code: http://pastebin.com/i773VL6i

I've got the rendering to multiple windows working but the input needs a little tweaking:

Your code seems fine, but you should call CEGUI::OgreRenderer::getDefaultRenderTarget to get the target for a context instead of

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new CEGUI::OgreWindowTarget(

Also you could use the bootstrapping function and then manually create the additional renderers. You could also try removing all your rendering code and this call:

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    ceguiOgreRenderer->setRenderingEnabled(false);

That way the ogre renderer should render automatically whenever the ogre window is rendered. (I would get rid of all the draw calls, though I would keep the time calls, in frameRenderingQueued)

[Boost113]

Now I got the input working but there seems to be some flickering issues.
What maybe happening is that Ogre isn't bothering to clear the screen every frame so the CEGUI junk shows up for a while until Ogre clears it.
The flickering seems to only happen when something is moving/updating in CEGUI and drawing a scene with Ogre (or just a skybox) is enough to solve the issue.


Now I just need to get ogre to draw an empty scene every frame to clear the buffer.
After that different sized windows might cause the next issues as CEGUI::System won't know which dimensions to use.

[Ident]

I added this to my todo list. I will likely make a OpenGL3+ Renderer based test application and try to adapt CEGUI for multi-window support. I am afraid this might have to go into default though, changes to Renderer and System will most likely have to be made :/

[Suslik]

Now I got the input working but there seems to be some flickering issues.
What maybe happening is that Ogre isn't bothering to clear the screen every frame so the CEGUI junk shows up for a while until Ogre clears it.
The flickering seems to only happen when something is moving/updating in CEGUI and drawing a scene with Ogre (or just a skybox) is enough to solve the issue.

Yeah that's exactly the kind of issue I have discovered: weird glitches while moving/interacting with CEGUI in the second window. The glitches differ on different ogre renderers: d3d renderer draws an enlarged upside-down image while interacting with gui, opengl renderer flickers instead.

[Boost113]

Now I got the input working but there seems to be some flickering issues.
What maybe happening is that Ogre isn't bothering to clear the screen every frame so the CEGUI junk shows up for a while until Ogre clears it.
The flickering seems to only happen when something is moving/updating in CEGUI and drawing a scene with Ogre (or just a skybox) is enough to solve the issue.

Yeah that's exactly the kind of issue I have discovered: weird glitches while moving/interacting with CEGUI in the second window. The glitches differ on different ogre renderers: d3d renderer draws an enlarged upside-down image while interacting with gui, opengl renderer flickers instead.

It seems that all of the graphical glitches can be fixed by properly clearing the render window before each frame (I did that by drawing an ogre skybox).