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["Rudolf" <drivers.be-hold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> 
> Hi Rudolf,
> >I can imagine the same 
> >fault sitting in BDirectWindow BTW: did not check.
> 
> I think BDirectWindow works fine, at least on beos r5. BTW, I 
> uploaded a test app in /src/tests/kits/game/direct_window_info_test 
which, started from a terminal, prints also the clipping info, you can 
use it to check if it works fine under dano (which I don't have).

I was hoping BDirectWindow works fine: it's much more used I guess :)
Also, I guess it could make a difference if you're inside a class 
'implementing'(?) it, or if you are outside of it using it?
I'm no expert in this kind of stuff as you can see via the question 
marks..

> You mentioned BGLView... I noticed we don't even have the header in 
> our repository. Should we implement it as well ? I seem to recall some 
discussions about GL stuff which involved breaking source and binary 
compatibility but I could be wrong, someone remember better than me ?

The header should be there I'd say. It's on R5 as well..
I don't know what discussions you are talking about BTW. My bad I 
guess. Anyway: I don't know what road Haiku will take towards HW 
openGL. I just know that BGLView (especially if fixed) is perfectly 
usable as far as I'm concerned. And it's compatible with R5..

Although I did not yet look into things as switcing workspaces while an 
app is running, setting a new more when an app is running. But maybe 
someone else sees already how that should/could work.

Be went another way: something like BDirectGLView or something (dano). 
It adds multimonitor support and fixes the probs BGLView has. At least, 
this has been told to me by a betatester. Anyway: I think I already 
proved now that BGLView in itself is perfectly usable for us for now.


> BTW, nice workarounds :)
Thank you :-)
It's nice (again) to get confirmation on a direction taken: as I am 
still a bit uncertain in this new area for me. Although I generally am 
able to detect if something is setup right for (graphics) hardware 
support ;-)

Rudolf.