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0010196VTK(No Category)public2010-01-28 21:212016-08-12 09:55
ReporterFrançois Bertel 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Summary0010196: Improve fine-tuning of OpenGL/Mesa RenderWindow
DescriptionRight now, there is no way for a user to force the creation of the default OpenGL framebuffer [1] of an OpenGL renderer window with a particular set of criteria (number of bits in the depth buffer, in the color buffer, ...)

It could be done by adding some preference profile object. For example, this profile could have a minimum number of bits for a depth buffer, a minimum number of bits for the colorbuffer. In parallel, each item of the preference list should have a boolean value saying if the item is required or if it is up to the system to pick any.

For the illustration purpose of the discussion, let's call vtkFrameBufferProfile
a class composed of two pointers. The first one to a vtkFrameBufferProfileValues object
and the second one to a vtkFrameBufferProfileMask object.

class vtkFrameBufferProfile
{
public:
vtkFrameBufferProfileValues *GetValues();
vtkFrameBufferProfileMask *GetMask();
}

For example, with:

vtkFrameBufferProfile *p=vtkFrameBufferProfile::New();
p->GetValues()->SetDepthBufferBits(24);
p->GetMask()->SetDepthBufferBits(true);
p->GetMask()->SetColorBufferBits(false);

the user is asking for a minimum of 24 bits in the depth buffer but does not care about how many bits are used for the colorbuffer.
The system will create a framebuffer with at least 24bits in its depth buffer and with any kind of colorbuffer, regardless of the colorbufferbits preference value.
 
To build the list of preferences, we can use references [2],[3] and [4].


[1] "default" framebuffer, as defined in the OpenGL 3.2 Compatibility Profile Specification, section 2.1, page 6 as the window system-provided framebuffer http://www.opengl.org/registry/doc/glspec32.compatibility.20091207.pdf [^]
[2] GLX 1.4 http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/glx/glx1.4.pdf [^]
[3] WGL pixel format: http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/wgl_pixel_format.txt [^]
[4] NSOpenGLPixelFormat: Mac OS X http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSOpenGLPixelFormat_Class/Reference/Reference.html [^]
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Kitware Robot (administrator)
2016-08-12 09:55

 Resolving issue as `moved`.

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 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-01-28 21:21 François Bertel New Issue
2010-01-28 21:22 François Bertel Status backlog => tabled
2010-01-28 21:22 François Bertel Assigned To => François Bertel
2010-09-07 13:43 François Bertel Assigned To François Bertel =>
2011-06-16 13:11 Zack Galbreath Category => (No Category)
2016-08-12 09:55 Kitware Robot Note Added: 0037138
2016-08-12 09:55 Kitware Robot Status expired => closed
2016-08-12 09:55 Kitware Robot Resolution open => moved
2016-08-12 09:55 Kitware Robot Assigned To => Kitware Robot

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