Re: [HOpenGL] (not?) using preservingMatrix

Right, I buy that. But I don't see how the C line glGetFloatv (GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, your_matrix_result) ; can be done, since it writes a result into your_matrix_result, so I would need something like: preservingMatrix $ do loadIdentity -- do whatever you want with your your matrix rs <- get ((matrix $ Just $ Modelview 0)::StateVar(GLmatrix GLdouble)) -- this does not compile, but I need rs return () I want the matrix so that I can then transform a vector. Speaking of which, are there any ready-made ways to transform a vector with a matrix, or do I need to do that by hand (eg., see the post http://groups.google.com/group/comp.graphics.api.opengl/browse_thread/thread...) Thanks again, Jamin Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

On 1/5/07, jamin1001 wrote:

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In C OpenGL, you can do something like this to use matrices for computation without affecting context:

glMatrixMode (GL_MODELVIEW) ; glPushMatrix () ; glLoadMatrix (your_matrix) ; // do whatever you want with your your matrix // for exampl glMultMatrix (your_matrix2) ; ... // at the end of your calculations use glGetFloatv (GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, your_matrix_result) ; glPopMatrix () ; // nothing has changed !!!

I'm not exactly sure how this is done with HOpenGL. i.e., how can I get the result of a matrix transformation not effecting the MODELVIEW, etc. matrices? Could someone give an example?

Thanks,

Jamin

glPushMatrix() ; foo ; glPopMatrix();

Is written like so:

preservingMatrix foo

Often you would write things like do foo preservingMatrix $ do bar baz foo2

Here bar and baz may modify the matrices, but as soon as you leave the scope of the action passed to preservingMatrix, the matrix stack is popped (glPopMatrix()).

The Haskell way is better, since there is no way of ever forgetting to pop the matrix - preservingMatrix is like a user defined control structure. That's what first class actions buys you.

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