iOS 5: can't have subview to ARViewController anymore

[mikewoz]

Hi,

I finally tried building my app with the iOS 5 SDK, and have an issue with windows / subviews.

Previously, I added a overlay view to my scene in ARAppOSGDelegate's applicationDidFinishLaunching like this:

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[window addSubview:viewController.view];
[window addSubview:hudController.view];


Here viewController is an instance of ARViewController, and hudController is my custom class. This worked fine, but as of iOS 5, I see the hudController view for only a fraction of a second, then the screen flashes white and the AR view appears over top. It seems like this is triggered by [ARView layoutSubviews]. It somehow pops up to the front, and hided my subview.

Does anyone have any idea what changed in iOS 5 that would cause this?

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Also, in case anyone is interested, there were 2 issues that prevented me from even getting my app to build for iOS 5 in the first place:

1) The GCC 4.2 compiler is no longer bundled with XCode, so you have to switch to LLVM GCC 4.2. I first tried the default Apple LLVM compiler, but got a segfault when loading OSG dynamic libraries (something to do with dynamic_cast).

2) I had to modify one of the OSG include files: include/ios4/osg/BufferObject lines 84,85:
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        typedef int GLintptr;
        typedef int GLsizeiptr;


To:

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        typedef long GLintptr;
        typedef long GLsizeiptr;


[mikewoz]

Well, I found a hack to get around this. In [ARViewController start], I force the GL view to the back right after it's added:

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// look for this in ARViewController:
glView = [[ARView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds] pixelFormat:kEAGLColorFormatRGBA8 depthFormat:GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16_OES stencilFormat:0 preserveBackbuffer:NO];
glView.arViewController = self;
self.view = glView;

// Do this to force GL view behind my custom views:
[self.view.superview sendSubviewToBack:self.view];