I have been trying to run an open source Windows executable that I would like to help porting to macOS using the Game Porting Toolkit but I stumbled on an issue quite early in the application lifecycle.
It looks like the funtion GetThreadDpiHostingBehavior is missing in USER32.dll
Has anyone any idea how to solve that?
During the startup, it fails with the following error:
TiXL crashed. We're really sorry.
The last backup was saved Unknown time to...
C:\users\crossover\AppData\Roaming\TiXL\Backup
Please refer to Help > Using Backups on what to do next.
System.EntryPointNotFoundException: Unable to find an entry point named 'GetThreadDpiHostingBehavior' in DLL 'USER32.dll'.
at System.Windows.Forms.ScaleHelper.DpiAwarenessScope..ctor(DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT context, DPI_HOSTING_BEHAVIOR behavior)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScaleHelper.EnterDpiAwarenessScope(DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT awareness, DPI_HOSTING_BEHAVIOR dpiHosting)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.get_MarshallingControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext..ctor()
at System.Windows.Forms.WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext.InstallIfNeeded()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control..ctor(Boolean autoInstallSyncContext)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl..ctor()
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl..ctor()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form..ctor()
at T3.Editor.SplashScreen.SplashScreen.SplashForm..ctor()
at T3.Editor.SplashScreen.SplashScreen.Show(String imagePath) in C:\Users\pixtur\dev\tooll\tixl\Editor\SplashScreen\SplashScreen.cs:line 25
at T3.Editor.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\pixtur\dev\tooll\tixl\Editor\Program.cs:line 111
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I think I really have tried everything and I did all according to official documentation to support game mode on iOS or iPadOS but it doesn't matter what I do it just doesn't get triggered. Funny enough it works during development when I install it via Xcode but as soon as it is live on the store and when I install it from there game mode doesn't get triggered anymore. What I have atm
I have added (even though it is deprecated)
<key>GCSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
I have set the (but it seems only supported for macOS)
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.games</string>
I have added
<key>LSSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
It just doesn't work. Is there anything else what needs to be done? Should the flag LSSupportsGameMode not be enough normally?
The reason why this is so annoying is that my app is a real time streaming app and I want to profit from minimised background activities for smoother gameplay and more consistent frame rates like mentioned in the documentation.
We used below method to resize image while compress the image,
Below method is correct or need to do the correction in method or "CGBitmapContextCreate"
-(UIImage *)resizeImage:(UIImage *)anImage width:(int)width height:(int)height
{
CGImageRef imageRef = [anImage CGImage];
CGImageAlphaInfo alphaInfo = CGImageGetAlphaInfo(imageRef);
if (alphaInfo == kCGImageAlphaNone)
alphaInfo = kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast;
CGContextRef bitmap = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, width, height, CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(imageRef), 4 * width, CGImageGetColorSpace(imageRef), alphaInfo);
CGContextDrawImage(bitmap, CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height), imageRef);
CGImageRef ref = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(bitmap);
UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:ref];
CGContextRelease(bitmap);
CGImageRelease(ref);
return result;
}
I have a model that uses a video material as the surface shader and I need to also use a geometry modifier on the material.
This seemed like it would be promising (adapted from https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10075 ~5m 50s).
// Did the setup for the video and AVPlayer eventually leading me to
let videoMaterial = VideoMaterial(avPlayer: avPlayer)
// Assign the material to the entity
entity.model!.materials = [videoMaterial]
// The part shown in WWDC: Set up the library and geometry modifier before, so now try to map the new custom material to the video material
entity.model!.materials = entity.model!.materials.map { baseMaterial in
try! CustomMaterial(from: baseMaterial, geometryModifier: geometryModifier)
}
But, I get the following error
Thread 1: Fatal error: 'try!' expression unexpectedly raised an error: RealityFoundation.CustomMaterialError.defaultSurfaceShaderForMaterialNotFound
How can I apply a geometry modifier to a VideoMaterial? Or, if I can't do that, is there an easy way to route the AVPlayer video data into the baseColor of CustomMaterial?
Hi,
The metal-cpp distribution appears to only contain headers for Foundation and Quartzcore. The LearnMetalCPP download [1] provides a ZIP with an metal-cpp-extensions directory containing AppKit.hpp and MetalKit.hpp headers. First question: Are these headers distributed anywhere else more publicly? Without these headers only the renderer can be fully written in C++ as far as I can tell, i.e. no complete C++ NSApplication. Second question: Will these headers, if needed, be maintained (e.g. updated and/or extended) by Apple along side metal-cpp?
[1] https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
Thank you and regards.
I am currently developing a mobile and server-side application using the new ObjectCaptureSession on iOS and PhotogrammetrySession on MacOS.
I have two questions regarding the newly updated APIs.
From WWDC23 session: "Meet Object Capture for iOS", I know that the Object Capture API uses Point Cloud data captured from iPhone LiDAR sensor. I want to know how to use the Point Cloud data captured on iPhone ObjectCaptureSession and use it to create 3D models on PhotogrammetrySession on MacOS.
From the example code from WWDC21, I know that the PhotogrammetrySession utilizes depth map from captured photo images by embedding it into the HEIC image and use those data to create a 3D asset on PhotogrammetrySession on MacOS. I would like to know if Point Cloud data is also embedded into the image to be used during 3D reconstruction and if not, how else the Point Cloud data is inserted to be used during reconstruction.
Another question is, I know that Point Cloud data is returned as a result from request to the PhtogrammetrySession.Request. I would like to know if this PointCloud data is the same set of data captured during ObjectCaptureSession from WWDC23 that is used to create ObjectCapturePointCloudView.
Thank you to everyone for the help in advance. It's a real pleasure to be developing with all the updates to RealityKit and the Object Capture API.
Hey folks,
I have a legacy game that is running OpenGL ES - and it no longer works on the simulators that are running Apple Silicon, ie iPhone 15 Pro, or the 13" iPads. And yes, i'm also running on Apple Silicon (M1 Max).
The apps work fine on the actual devices, but the simulator crashes on any glDrawElements with a stack that looks like the following:
I have not yet seen an announcement about this not working but i've seen mention in other apps of stopping to support GL (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/issues/2351)
Can anyone shed some light? I'm obviously going to try to fix it, or find a recent sample app from which to start to see what might be up. Or move to metal, but i hadn't bargained for that level of effort atm ;)
Any suggestions appreciated!
So I get JPEG data in my app. Previously I was using the higher level NSBitmapImageRep API and just feeding the JPEG data to it.
But now I've noticed on Sonoma If I get a JPEG in the CMYK color space the NSBitmapImageRep renders mostly black and is corrupted. So I'm trying to drop down to the lower level APIs. Specifically I grab a CGImageRef and and trying to use the Accelerate API to convert it to another format (to hopefully workaround the issue...
CGImageRef sourceCGImage = `CGImageCreateWithJPEGDataProvider(jpegDataProvider,`
NULL,
shouldInterpolate,
kCGRenderingIntentDefault);
Now I use vImageConverter_CreateWithCGImageFormat... with the following values for source and destination formats:
Source format: (derived from sourceCGImage)
bitsPerComponent = 8
bitsPerPixel = 32
colorSpace = (kCGColorSpaceICCBased; kCGColorSpaceModelCMYK; Generic CMYK Profile)
bitmapInfo = kCGBitmapByteOrderDefault
version = 0
decode = 0x000060000147f780
renderingIntent = kCGRenderingIntentDefault
Destination format:
bitsPerComponent = 8
bitsPerPixel = 24
colorSpace = (DeviceRBG)
bitmapInfo = 8197
version = 0
decode = 0x0000000000000000
renderingIntent = kCGRenderingIntentDefault
But vImageConverter_CreateWithCGImageFormat fails with kvImageInvalidImageFormat. Now if I change the destination format to use 32 bitsPerpixel and use alpha in the bitmap info the vImageConverter_CreateWithCGImageFormat does not return an error but I get a black image just like NSBitmapImageRep
I have a Mac Studio 2023 M2 Max
Running Sonoma 14.6.1
Developing in XCode 16.1
It seems that the NSScreen frame settings may be incorrect. The frame settings received from NSScreen.screens don't seem to match up with the Desktop arrangement settings in the Settings.
Apologies in advance for this long post!
for screen in NSScreen.screens {
let name = screen.localizedName
Globals.logger.debug("Globals initializeScreens - screen \(i) '\(name, privacy: .public)'")
Globals.logger.debug("Globals initializeScreens - '\(screen.debugDescription, privacy: .public)'")
}
This is what I receive in the log:
Globals initializeScreens - '<NSScreen: 0x600000ef4240;
name="PHL 346E2C";
backingScaleFactor=1.000000;
frame={{0, 0}, {3440, 1440}};
visibleFrame={{0, 0}, {3440, 1415}}>'
Globals initializeScreens - screen 2 'Blackmagic (1)'
Globals initializeScreens - '<NSScreen: 0x600000ef42a0;
name="Blackmagic (1)";
backingScaleFactor=1.000000;
frame={{-3840, 0}, {1920, 1080}};
visibleFrame={{-3840, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
Globals initializeScreens - screen 3 'Blackmagic (4)'
Globals initializeScreens - '<NSScreen: 0x600000ef4360;
name="Blackmagic (4)";
backingScaleFactor=1.000000;
frame={{-1920, 0}, {1920, 1080}};
visibleFrame={{-1920, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
Globals initializeScreens - screen 4 'Blackmagic (2)'
Globals initializeScreens - '<NSScreen: 0x600000ef43c0;
name="Blackmagic (2)";
backingScaleFactor=1.000000;
frame={{5360, 0}, {1920, 1080}};
visibleFrame={{5360, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
Globals initializeScreens - screen 5 'Blackmagic (3)'
Globals initializeScreens - '<NSScreen: 0x600000ef4420;
name="Blackmagic (3)";
backingScaleFactor=1.000000;
frame={{3440, 0}, {1920, 1080}};
visibleFrame={{3440, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
It looks like the frame settings for Blackmagic (2) and Blackmagic (4) are switched.
The setup has five monitors. Four are using the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapters. The output for these are streamed into a rack of A/V equipment using BlackMagic Design mini converters and monitors.
My Swift application allows users to open four movies, one for each of the AV Adapters. The movies can then be played back in sync for later processing by the A/V equipment.
Here are some screen captures that show my display settings.
Blackmagic (1) and Blackmagic (2) are to the left of the main screen.
Blackmagic (3) and Blackmagic(4) are to the right of the main screen.
The desktop is hard to see but is correct.
The wallpaper settings are all correct.
The wallpaper is correctly ordered when displayed on the monitors.
After opening the movies and using the NSScreen frame settings, the displays are incorrectly ordered. Test B and Test D are switched, which is what I would expect given the NSScreen frame values.
Any ideas? I've tried re-arranging the desktops, rebooting, etc. but no luck.
The code that changes the screen location is similar to this post on Stack Overflow
public func setDisplay( screen: NSScreen ) {
Globals.logger.log("MovieWindowController - setDisplay = \(screen.localizedName, privacy: .public)")
Globals.logger.debug("MovieWindowController - setDisplay - '\(screen.debugDescription, privacy: .public)'")
let dx = CGFloat(Constants.midX)
let dy = CGFloat(Constants.midY)
var pos = NSPoint()
pos.x = screen.visibleFrame.midX - dx
pos.y = screen.visibleFrame.midY - dy
Globals.logger.debug("MovieWindowController - setDisplay - x = '\(pos.x, privacy: .public)', y = '\(pos.y, privacy: .public)'")
window?.setFrameOrigin(pos)
}
The log show just what I would expect given the incorrect frame values.
MovieWindowController - setDisplay = Blackmagic (1)
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - '<NSScreen: 0x6000018e8420; name="Blackmagic (1)"; backingScaleFactor=1.000000; frame={{-3840, 0}, {1920, 1080}}; visibleFrame={{-3840, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - x = '-3840.000000', y = '-12.500000'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay = Blackmagic (2)
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - '<NSScreen: 0x6000018a10e0; name="Blackmagic (2)"; backingScaleFactor=1.000000; frame={{5360, 0}, {1920, 1080}}; visibleFrame={{5360, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - x = '5360.000000', y = '-12.500000'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay = Blackmagic (3)
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - '<NSScreen: 0x6000018cc8a0; name="Blackmagic (3)"; backingScaleFactor=1.000000; frame={{3440, 0}, {1920, 1080}}; visibleFrame={{3440, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - x = '3440.000000', y = '-12.500000'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay = Blackmagic (4)
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - '<NSScreen: 0x6000018c9ce0; name="Blackmagic (4)"; backingScaleFactor=1.000000; frame={{-1920, 0}, {1920, 1080}}; visibleFrame={{-1920, 0}, {1920, 1055}}>'
MovieWindowController - setDisplay - x = '-1920.000000', y = '-12.500000'
Am I correct? I think this is driving me crazy!
Thanks in advance!
Edit: The mouse behavior is correct in moving across the displays!
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
General
Hello!
Brand new to the Apple developer community, so, hello everyone! I'm a game developer, we just launched our first game on PC and I'm looking to port it to ios. Time is something I'm kind of short on, and I hear it takes some jumping through hoops to get the know-how to port something to mobile. Any good sites you'd recommend for finding programmers to port your game? It's fairly simple - just a visual novel. Any and all suggestions welcome!
All the best!
Elijah
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
General
I am trying to convert a JPG image to a JP2 (JPEG 2000) format using the ImageMagick library on iOS. However, although the file extension is changing to .jp2, the format of the image does not seem to be changing. The output image is still being treated as a JPG file, and not as a true JP2 format.
Here is the code
(IBAction)convertButtonClicked:(id)sender {
NSString *jpgPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Example" ofType:@"jpg"];
NSString *tempFilePath = [NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Converted.jp2"];
MagickWand *wand = NewMagickWand();
if (MagickReadImage(wand, [jpgPath UTF8String]) == MagickFalse) {
char *description;
ExceptionType severity;
description = MagickGetException(wand, &severity);
NSLog(@"Error reading image: %s", description);
MagickRelinquishMemory(description);
return;
}
if (MagickSetFormat(wand, "JP2") == MagickFalse) {
char *description;
ExceptionType severity;
description = MagickGetException(wand, &severity);
NSLog(@"Error setting image format to JP2: %s", description);
MagickRelinquishMemory(description);
}
if (MagickWriteImage(wand, [tempFilePath UTF8String]) == MagickFalse) {
NSLog(@"Error writing JP2 image");
return;
}
NSLog(@"Image successfully converted.");
}
@end
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
General
I’m trying to create a CGContext that matches my screen using the following code
let context = CGContext(
data: pixelBuffer,
width: pixelWidth, // 3456
height: pixelHeight, // 2234
bitsPerComponent: 10, // PixelEncoding = "--RRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBBBB"
bytesPerRow: bytesPerRow, // 13824
space: CGColorSpace(name: CGColorSpace.extendedSRGB)!,
bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.none.rawValue
| CGImagePixelFormatInfo.RGBCIF10.rawValue
| CGImageByteOrderInfo.order16Little.rawValue
)
But it fails with an error
CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination:
RGB
10 bits/component, integer
13824 bytes/row
kCGImageAlphaNone
kCGImageByteOrder16Little
kCGImagePixelFormatRGBCIF10
Valid parameters for RGB color space model are:
16 bits per pixel, 5 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipFirst
32 bits per pixel, 8 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipFirst
32 bits per pixel, 8 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast
32 bits per pixel, 8 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst
32 bits per pixel, 8 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast
32 bits per pixel, 10 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNone|kCGImagePixelFormatRGBCIF10|kCGImageByteOrder16Little
64 bits per pixel, 16 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast
64 bits per pixel, 16 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast
64 bits per pixel, 16 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast|kCGBitmapFloatComponents|kCGImageByteOrder16Little
64 bits per pixel, 16 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast|kCGBitmapFloatComponents|kCGImageByteOrder16Little
128 bits per pixel, 32 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast|kCGBitmapFloatComponents
128 bits per pixel, 32 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast|kCGBitmapFloatComponents
See Quartz 2D Programming Guide (available online) for more information.
Why is it unsupported if it matches the 6th option? (32 bits per pixel, 10 bits per component, kCGImageAlphaNone|kCGImagePixelFormatRGBCIF10|kCGImageByteOrder16Little)
After many former OS and Xcode updates, my Game Controller Swift code generates a "DIS-CONNECTED" MESSAGE.
Mac Sequoia 15.2
Xcode 16.2
Tried to update PlayStation controller firmware on my Mac.
Still no luck with Xcode and its use of a game controller with tvOS.
Hello, I am making a project in SDL, and with that I am using SDL_Image. I am doing all of this on Xcode.
I've been able to initialize everything just fine, but issues spring up when I try to load an image.
When I give the code a path to look for an image:
Unable to load image! IMG_Error: Couldn't open [Insert image path here]: Operation not permitted
I get that error.
Keep in mind "Unable to load image" is a general error I put in the code should loading said image fail, the specific error which I called with IMG_GetError() is what we really need to know.
I've seen before that this might occur if a program does not have full disk access. Because of this, I've tried giving Xcode full disk access, but this didn't work and I still got the same error.
End goal: to detect 3 lines, and 2 corners accurately. Trying contours but they are a bit off. Is there a way or settings in contours to detect corners and lines more accurately, maybe less an sharper edged/corner contours? Or some other API or methods please?
I would love an email please ;) thank you. 2. also an overlay/scale issue
Hi, I’m learning MAUI and was trying to use VNDocumentCameraViewController provided by Vision Kit to scan documents and it is working fine but I realized that I was not able to customize some of the options provided by default like, disabling the auto scan option. Is there any way to disable the auto scan option or are there any other alternatives with the same founctionalities as VNDocumentCameraViewController that are more customizable?
I have a CoreImage pipeline and one of my steps is to rotate my image about the origin (bottom left corner) and then translate it. I'm not seeing the behaviour I'm expecting, and I think my problem is in how I'm combining these two steps.
As an example, I start with an identity transform
(lldb) po transform333
▿ CGAffineTransform
- a : 1.0
- b : 0.0
- c : 0.0
- d : 1.0
- tx : 0.0
- ty : 0.0
I then rotate 1.57 radians (approx. 90 degrees, CCW)
transform333 = transform333.rotated(by: 1.57)
- a : 0.0007963267107332633
- b : 0.9999996829318346
- c : -0.9999996829318346
- d : 0.0007963267107332633
- tx : 0.0
- ty : 0.0
I understand the current contents of the transform.
But then I translate by 10, 10:
(lldb) po transform333.translatedBy(x: 10, y: 10)
- a : 0.0007963267107332633
- b : 0.9999996829318346
- c : -0.9999996829318346
- d : 0.0007963267107332633
- tx : -9.992033562211013
- ty : 10.007960096425679
I was expecting tx and ty to be 10 and 10.
I have noticed that when I reverse the order of these operations, the transform contents look correct. So I'll most likely just perform the steps in what feels to me like the incorrect order.
Is anyone willing/able to point me to an explanation of why the steps I'm performing are giving me these results?
thanks,
mike
I have used the Mac M1 and M4.
Developing OpenGL projects on machines running macOS 15.2 and 13.6.
Call the OpenGL library functions of Mac.
glTexImage2D
If you use GL_LUMINANCE, GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA, GL_ALPHA these three textures, you will get an error gl 500.
It makes me unable to draw normally on Mac.
What's the reason for this? Don't they support it?
How to create a beautiful fire animation using Swift?
Which API is better to use?
Our application is trying to read all resolutions of an external monitor. We have observed that, for the external monitor there is a mismatch in resolution list in our application and the resolution list in system settings. We are using the apple API "CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes" to read the resolutions.