Drawing on multiple surfaces by using only EGLSurface?

Question

Is it possible to draw from the same application on multiple surfaces, one by one, by using only the handler returned by eglCreateWindowSurface ?

What i want to achieve is to create two or more surfaces and pass them to a client who will draw on them, and then, when done, basically, i will only need to perform swapBuffers. A simple surface handler ( EGLSurface ) will be enough for the client to draw shapes etc ?

I cannot find any examples; each examples just draws in the current context.

Answer 1

I have never tried this, but it should be possible. On the EGL level, the association between context and surface is established when you make a context current with the eglMakeCurrent() call:

EGLBoolean eglMakeCurrent( EGLDisplay display,
                           EGLSurface draw,
                           EGLSurface read,
                           EGLContext context);

The EGLSurface you pass to this call (typically the same for read and draw) can come from the return value of eglCreateWindowSurface().

So if you're currently drawing to surface1, and you want to start rendering to surface2, you can use:

eglMakeCurrent(eglGetCurrentDisplay(), surface2, surface2,
               eglGetCurrentContext());

Note that each surface can only be current for one context at a time. From the EGL 1.4 spec:

at most one context may be bound to a particular surface at a given time