Sprites being draw to world coordinates instead of screen

[evil_twinkie]

I am working on a project that is used on both Macs and Linux machines.  

In linux, the program runs just fine.  I have a few sprites for a menu that are mapped to the screen coordinates and shows up correctly.  On a mac, this same program maps the sprites to the world coordinates instead of the screen coordinates, so there is a gigantic menu bar in the 3D space.  I've double checked to make sure I am pushing the gl_projection and gl_modelview matrices before I draw the sprites, and then pop them after (along with the other openGL cleanup stuff).

Is there a known bug or issue that I am not compensating for?  Can anyone point me to information on this problem?

Thanks

[Laurent]

Can you show your code? It's not clear at all what you're doing, you're talking about sprites and OpenGL projection matrices... how do you mix them together?

[evil_twinkie]

I am using both SFML (window, system, and graphics) and OpenGl. SFML for the windowing/menu and opengl for rendering the scene.  I can't really provide a small working example because the whole project is pretty split up.

Currently all I use opengl for is displaying a bunch of cubes:

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void drawScene(){
  glBegin(GL_QUADS);
  {
    glVertex3f(...);
  ...
  }
}


I use shapes/sprites to draw the menu (this is just the background, but other parts are made similarly):

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void createMenu(){
  sf::Shape fileMenuBackground;
  ...
}


Before and after I draw the menu (after I draw the scene of openGL cubes) I call these two functions:

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void preSFML(){
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);  glPushMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glPushMatrix();
glPushAttrib(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_CURRENT_BIT   | GL_ENABLE_BIT  |
GL_TEXTURE_BIT | GL_TRANSFORM_BIT | GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);

glDisable(GL_ALPHA_TEST);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDisable(GL_LIGHTING);
}


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void Gui::postSFML(){

glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);  glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
}

So it looks something like this:

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drawScene();
preSFML();
     App->Draw(fileMenuBackground);
     ...
postSFML();


All of this runs just fine in linux.  The menu is properly drawn to the 2D screen coordinates and the cubes drawn to the 3D scene coordinates.  When I run this program on a mac, both the menu and the cubes are drawn to the 3D scene coordinates.  Hopefully this illustrates my problem a little bit better.  I am probably just be doing something wrong or have a misconception on how openGL works.  

What I was asking in my first post is if there is a known issue of why the menu is being drawn to the 3D coordinates.  Is there something I'm doing in the preSFML and postSFML functions that does not work properly on a mac?  Possibly anything else?  I appreciate the help.

[Laurent]

Try using window.PreserveOpenGLStates (once at init) instead of your own functions.

Another explanation could be a bug in the Mac OS X port, if it's working on Linux. Try testing on Windows if you can.

[evil_twinkie]

window.PreserveOpenGLStates seemed to work.  Is this because PreserveOpenGLStates works differently for mac than it does for linux?  I don't know why I didn't think about that...

Thanks for the help Laurent.

[Laurent]

No it works the same. Maybe you forgot to save/restore a state in your own functions, and the behaviour depended on some default value, I don't know. Sometimes results can be different depending on the graphics driver.