QGLWidget appears black in Windows 7

Question

I wrote and tested some code in a Windows XP (Qt 4.7.2) using Visual Studio 2010 and then I tried on another machine with Windows 7 installed.

The program opens a QDialog and creates a QGLWidget where I show webcam images (with some processing). While in Windows XP the images are shown correctly, at the moment that I test the program in a Windows 7 machine, the QGLWidget turns black and no image is shown. It is strange, though, that when I move around the window and it gets out of the borders of the screen, the image is shown for an instant and pitch black when I stop moving again, which makes me think that the images are correctly received/processed (some times), and that it might be a problem with a QTimer.

The relevant code is:

Initialization:

void GLVideo::initializeGL()
{   
    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);

    glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
    glClearDepth(1.0f);

    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
    glDepthFunc(GL_LEQUAL);

    glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST);

    // Some OpenCV processing

    // Here I declare the timer, might it be the problem?
    m_timer = new QTimer(this);
    connect( m_timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(timeOutSlot()) );
    m_timer->start( 33 );

}

Slot that is called every timeout:

void GLVideo::timeOutSlot() 
{
    ReceiveInfo();
    LoadTextures();
}

void GLVideo::LoadTextures() 
{   
    // Get the image from the webcam
    ProcessCamera();

    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);  
    glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 3, qImage->width(), 
        qImage->height(), 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, qImage->bits());
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR );
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR );

    updateGL();
}

void GLVideo::resizeGL( int width, int height )
{
    height = height?height:1;
    glViewport( 0, 0, (GLint)width, (GLint)height );
    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluPerspective(45.0f,(GLfloat)width/(GLfloat)height,0.1f,100.0f);

    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    glLoadIdentity();
}

And finally, the paint function of the Widget:

void GLVideo::paintGL()
{   
    glPushAttrib(GL_ALL_ATTRIB_BITS) ;
    QPainter painter(this);
    painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing);

    glPopAttrib() ;

    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);

    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
    glLoadIdentity();

    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);

    glColor4f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f, 1.0f);
    glBegin(GL_QUADS);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(-1.65f, 1.24f, -3.0f);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f( 1.65f, 1.24f, -3.0f);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f( 1.65f,-1.24f, -3.0f);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(-1.65f,-1.24f, -3.0f);
    glEnd();    

    glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    glPopMatrix();

    // Some 2D drawing:
}

Any idea on what am I doing wrong? Might it be the QTimer that is not calling the SLOT timeOutSlot?

Answer 1

If your program works in Windows XP but not in Windows 7, I recommend that you should check if there is a newer version of the display driver.