NSOpenGLLayer animation issue under VNC

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

   Hello Mike,

   There is the issue 8005668 security control panel got greyed out when 
access Mac machine remotely using VNC
      http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8005668

   After a little investigation we have found that an animation does not 
work for the NSOpenGLLayer if a user uses VNC connection
   and the MAC OS X does not have connected monitors.

     Here are steps to reproduce which use only Cocoa application:
   - Connect to an Mac OS X with VNC
   - Detach all monitors from the Mac OS X (I used a Mac mini)
   - Run the code below
    The animation does not work

   The output shows that the drawInCGLContext method has been invoked 
only once or twice:
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2013-02-01 19:21:27.488 OpenGLLayerSample[1731:707] invalid drawable
2013-02-01 19:21:27.489 OpenGLLayerSample[1731:707] drawInCGLContext
2013-02-01 19:21:27.513 OpenGLLayerSample[1731:707] drawInCGLContext
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  Connection a monitor to the Mac OS X makes the animation work.

  It seems that it can have a relation to the issue 8005668 so the first 
time there is nothing to draw and next time nothing is drawn on a Java app.
  Is it a known issue and could it have a workaround?

  Thanks,
  Alexandr.

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     NSRect rect = NSMakeRect (200, 200, 300, 300);
     unsigned int styleMask = NSTitledWindowMask
     | NSMiniaturizableWindowMask;


     NSWindow *myWindow = [NSWindow alloc];
     myWindow = [myWindow initWithContentRect: rect
                                    styleMask: styleMask
                                      backing: NSBackingStoreBuffered
                                        defer: NO];

     NSView *view  = [[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:rect];

     view.layer = [CALayer layer];
     view.wantsLayer = YES;
     CALayer *newLayer = [CALayer layer];
     newLayer.backgroundColor = CGColorGetConstantColor(kCGColorBlack);
     newLayer.position  = CGPointMake(150,150);
     newLayer.frame = NSMakeRect(100,100,100,100);
     [view.layer addSublayer:newLayer];

     // do some custom GL drawing
     RotatingSquareGLLayer *caGLLayer = [RotatingSquareGLLayer layer];
     caGLLayer.asynchronous = YES;
     //[caGLLayer drawsAsynchronously: YES];
     caGLLayer.position  = CGPointMake(150,150);
     caGLLayer.frame = NSMakeRect(100,100,100,100);
     caGLLayer.asynchronous = YES;
     [view.layer addSublayer:caGLLayer];

     [myWindow setContentView: view];

     [myWindow setTitle: @"Main Window"];
     [myWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront: nil];




@interface RotatingSquareGLLayer : NSOpenGLLayer { }

@end

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import <Quartz/Quartz.h>
#import <QTKit/QTKit.h>

@implementation RotatingSquareGLLayer

// override to draw custom GL content
-(void)drawInCGLContext:(CGLContextObj)glContext
             pixelFormat:(CGLPixelFormatObj)pixelFormat
            forLayerTime:(CFTimeInterval)timeInterval
             displayTime:(const CVTimeStamp *)timeStamp {

     NSLog(@"drawInCGLContext");
     //*
     // set the current context
     CGLSetCurrentContext(glContext);

     // draw a single red quad spinning around based on the current time
     GLfloat rotate = timeInterval * 60.0; // 60 degrees per second
     glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
     glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
     glPushMatrix();
     glRotatef(rotate, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
     glBegin(GL_QUADS);
     glColor3f(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
     glVertex2f(-0.5, -0.5);
     glVertex2f(-0.5,  0.5);
     glVertex2f( 0.5,  0.5);
     glVertex2f( 0.5, -0.5);
     glEnd();
     glPopMatrix();
     //*/
     // call super to finalize the drawing - by default all it does is 
call glFlush()
     [super drawInCGLContext:glContext pixelFormat:pixelFormat 
forLayerTime:timeInterval displayTime:timeStamp];
}

@end
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