Global Access for iView

[Crystalfur]

Hallo,

As you know, iView/iCamera are special of the cs modules. It is a curious thing, and causes a bit of trouble.
Take this for instance,

setupModules()
{
  engine = csQueryRegister<iEngine>(object_reg);
  if(!engine)
    ...do some error stuff...
  loader = ...
  ...etc...


// But when we get to iView, things change.

...
  view.AttachNew(new csView (engine, g3d));
  iGraphics2D* g2d = g3d->GetDriver2D ();
  view->SetRectangle (0, 0, g2d->GetWidth (), g2d->GetHeight ());
  ...
  view->GetCamera ()->SetSector (room);
  view->GetCamera ()->GetTransform ().SetOrigin (csVector3 (0, 5, -3));
}

Ok, so for some reason iView is different. That doesn't matter except when it comes to having a global point of access.
That is to say, if I need a handle to the engine, all I need is the app's object registry and I can get it via the same mechanism as before: csRef<iEngine> engine = csQueryRegistery<iEngine>(app->GetObjectRegistery()); and I've got it.

Is there a way to access the current view/camera from anywhere? I suppose I could make a Singleton that holds the view/camera if I needed to. Oh, and I do realize that I could do the whole 'pass the app and use an inline function like app->getView()... But I'm trying to avoid having to send my app around everywhere.

Oh, and if any of the devs are reading this, THANKYOU for documenting! I would have had a hell of a time figuring out why my CS_IMPLEMENT_FOREIGN_DLL wasn't working if you had not specifically stated that I needed to set iSCF::SCF.

[res]

Is there a way to access the current view/camera from anywhere? I suppose I could make a Singleton that holds the view/camera if I needed to. Oh, and I do realize that I could do the whole 'pass the app and use an inline function like app->getView()... But I'm trying to avoid having to send my app around everywhere.

There is no “current view” as such: it's perfectly possible multiple iView implementations are instantiated at the same time and multiple, different views can be rendered in one frame. CS doesn't provide access to the “currently” or “last” used view (which might be some internally-used view anyway, and not the one you expect).