[PyQt] max texture size for QGLWidget.bindTexture?

[Brian Parma]

David Boddie wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:49:54 -0700, Brian Parma wrote:
>
>   
>> I've noticed that If I try to use bindTexture on QPixmaps that are large
>> (the size of the screen), and then display them on a quad, only a
>> portion of the texture actually shows.  The rest of the surface is
>> either black or a scrambled jumble of other textures.  If I use a
>> smaller image there is no problem, but I can't find any references to a
>> max texture size in the documentation.  I tried increasing the texture
>> cache size but that had no effect.  Is there a limit on texture size,
>> and if so, how do you determine it?
>>     
>
> Some slight experience with OpenGL told me that it had to be possible to get
> this information from the OpenGL implementation on my machine.
>
> The following function call (using the GL module of the PyOpenGL package)
> returns the value you are looking for:
>
>     GL.glGetIntegerv(GL.GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE)
>
> Strangely, in an interactive Python session, it returned 0, but I modified
> an example to print the value it returns, and my machine's implementation
> apparently supports textures up to 2048 pixels in size. However, it's an
> implementation-dependent value.
>
> Only a minimum of 64 pixels is guaranteed in OpenGL 1.2, as far as I can
> tell. Perhaps later versions increased this, but you may have to cater for
> hardware that only supports small texture sizes, anyway.
>
> David
>
> _______________________________________________
> PyQt mailing list    PyQt at riverbankcomputing.com
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com 
> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.17/1655 - Release Date: 9/5/2008 7:05 PM
>
>   
Thanks for the response, that's a good find, although I'm trying to 
figure out how to interpret the result.  On my laptop it returns 2048, 
but how does that translate into resolution?  I thought it was memory 
size at first, but changing formats from RGB8 to RGB4 doesn't let me use 
larger textures.  Right now I take a screen cap which is 1024 x 768, and 
I then scale it down with QPixmap.scaledToWidth.  I've been playing with 
the width to try and find the limit, and it seems to be between 650 and 
700 pixels wide.