FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: Be's BView and BGLView (and BDirectWindow?) clipping info is faulty

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

Thanks Philippe:

I'll relay to him and see what he says :)

Bye!

Rudolf.


> Rudolf asked:
> 
> > Philippe, CopyPixels needs to be implemented as well: Blender needs 
> > it:
> > the author? (Michael Weirauch) currently has a private extended 
> > version
> > of BGLView to work with...
> 
> I did implemented in Mesa 6.1 and sooner. Look for
> MesaDriver::CopyPixels{In|Out}() methods:
> 
> http://cvs.freedesktop.org/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/beos/
> GLView.cpp?rev=1.16&view=auto
> 
> But notice it's cannot be done by BGLView class itself, as for best 
> performance
> it's dependend on where the renderer store the front buffer and how 
> it's
> accessed.
> For current MesaDriver (aka Mesa-powered software renderer class), 
> it's just a
> matter of copying the color buffer BBitmap bits in or out. But for 
> hardware
> accelerated renderer(s), things can/would change there...
> 
> > I think it could be helpfull to contact him..
> 
> I'm not sure, but I guess that's the guy who contacted me about these 
> methodes
> missing implementation. I handed him an unreleased Mesa 6.3 version, 
> aka my
> latest local version I had at this time. Before I started to screw 
> all moving
> to rendered add-ons based. ;-)
> 
> If I'm wrong here and he did implement himself these methods, yep, 
> i'm
> interested!
> 
> > I'd love to see the nvidia 3D add-on implemented that way!
> 
> Yep. But don't hold your breath, I'm not ready to commit anything 
> that would
> build along the others Haiku's kit yet. Nor I've finished to code & 
> test the
> add-ons renderers API...
> When I'll have a version of the newer design + the current Mesa-
> powered software
> renderer in an add-on fully working like today Mesa 6.1 BeOS port, 
> I'll share
> the code and start importing it into SVN. Before doesn't make any 
> sense.
> Plus I don't have Internet in my spare time currently.
> 
> - Philippe
> 
>