mixer application trouble starting up

Close for JJ RC1

Initializing the engine and context before passing the args seem to fix the issue. Protocol wise seemed that both the surface and the top level were destroyed right after starting, so no idea what causing but migrate those before allows to open and I see that the control slider is in accordance to the one from the bottom panel. 

Changes have been pushed, and reside now in my master branch. 

If it helps I can provide some journal files. Also, the above 'conversion' part I've pretty much done for the other apps (and most of them weren't using that qtaglextras) without a major hitch so not really what is going on with the mixer, of there's something underneath that needs more fiddling. 

Yes, that seems to be case. 

So a bit of context:

I had to go back to 3336a398bb8ae52b74affc00dcd03342592c5fd6 and use that in order for afb-daemon to pass down to the application the correct port and token to compose/form that bindingAddress. 

I needed to that because I've ripped out any *windowmanager and qtaglextras links against qlibwindowmanager or windowmanager library itself. I also assume that it (qtaglextras) also wraps passing args  to the application itself just like commit 3336a398bb8ae52b74affc00dcd03342592c5fd6 does. 

Thing is when I do this, it seems that the application starts and exists/quits instantaneously. Initially I've just removed qtaglextras (see https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=apps/mixer.git;a=blobdiff;f=app/main.cpp;h=41b58924cbd43bfb8ad63857551cd043e21974c6;hp=4921bf2e93f3b81129433fe1c2fd5fb973d0b2d6;hb=b6638c65ad9af59abfb2a571e11be5a73dc662b8;hpb=a9408eee195825e2b42bc1d62769191db65f89fa) but with those modifications I noticed that bindingAddress is not set, the application would start displaying a text 'Mixer' right below the top panel. 

So then I tried to bring back 3336a398bb8ae52b74affc00dcd03342592c5fd6, but just the cmd parser part (https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=apps/mixer.git;a=blobdiff;f=app/main.cpp;h=e98572f0ec4a57141d783dea7d32f6c3f6708841;hp=41b58924cbd43bfb8ad63857551cd043e21974c6;hb=3df7363c56ada57f73a00865a67e66512f972598;hpb=90891f2a8a1735a6cf51c8e7a904a09886c2f210) and with those changes I see the issue describe above. 

You can probably follow better using https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=apps%2Fmixer.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2Fsandbox%2Fmvlad%2Fagl-compositor

Note all the above requires the agl-compositor. 

LE: Jira tries its best but it screws up the links. The last 3 commits from sandbox/mvlad/agl-compositor are relevant. 

   I dont understand what issue you're pointing at, could you elaborate a bit?

In case it helps,  the qtaglextras stuff included classes to wrap the configuration for  libhomescreen and libqwindowmanager, the commit you went back to was doing all the same setup in the application itself instead.  There are other apps that take the latter (old) approach, like settings.

The data to define the binding address comes from parsing the line args for the application, is this the step that is not working for you?