Texture ID Accessor

[lolz123]

I very much dislike glGet functions, they are really slow. Ugly, and high latency.

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/34944/glgetfloatv-should-it-be-avoided-can-it-be-replaced

And yes, the performance matters when designing a full 3D engine . GL calls are a large speed impediment, and is the reason why debuggers like gDEBugger have counters for them.

[Laurent]

Yeah... but here you just have to do it once, the texture/shader ID never changes.

[lolz123]

Yeah... but here you just have to do it once, the texture/shader ID never changes.

Having to cache it yourself when 4 more lines of code can be added to the SFML source to completely avoid this issue seems a bit silly to me. I know I could add it myself, but then nobody could use anything I write without compiling a custom version of SFML.

Why not just add the function for the next version of SFML?

[Laurent]

You misunderstood me. I'm not trying to argue for not adding this function. I'm just proving that what you say ("I cannot do that, I'm stuck, I have to use SDL") is overly exagerated because there's a 2 lines of code workaround.

[lolz123]

Ah OK.

[Tank]

I don't use SFML's shaders because I can't link multiple shaders to a program -- at least that's what I discovered last, and as far as I know, that part hasn't changed. SFML only allows to use one fragment and one vertex shader. I would have to change the sources in order to use combined shaders, whereas with raw OpenGL I can call glAttachShader whenever I want.

By the way, just like lolz123 I also use this for a custom 3D game library, and I wanted to use sf::Texture for convenience.

[Laurent]

Ok, I see.

[Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort]

I came across this problem, the 2 line workaround is okay but I guess a texture ID accessor would be nice to have.. Laurent I will swap you a carton of orange juice for your time to implement it? I can ship it to metz np.

[Laurent]

It will be added as soon as possible (not in SFML 2.1 which is a bug-fix release).

[FRex]

It will be added as soon as possible (not in SFML 2.1 which is a bug-fix release).

Bump?

[binary1248]

https://github.com/SFML/SFML/commit/1c3425744b405213335d40e08cc58d1ffcdd2302

It's coming soon™.