Creating a device without creating a window

[Donner]

Hey,

in my program i'm using Qt as GUI and Irrlicht as rendering engine.

I have multiple windows within my GUI used for different cameras. To let the device render in the right window, I use the id of the window in beginScene.

When creating the device at the program start, i put IrrlichtParameters.WindowId = NULL;

because there is no "standard window" where Irrlicht should render the scene into.

My problem: Whenever i create the device, it opens a new window (but of course it never uses it, because before rendering the scene I set another window with begindevice).

How can I tell Irrlicht not to open a new, empty window? Is there such an option?

Thanks a lot,
D.

[Sylence]

You can
a) create the device and give it a handle to the window that should be used to render
b) hide the window of the created device.

I would vote for a)

[Psan]

I'm not sure , but there is a null driver which may help.

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enum E_DRIVER_TYPE
{
//! Null driver, useful for applications to run the engine without visualisation.
/** The null device is able to load textures, but does not
	render and display any graphics. */

	EDT_NULL,
........