Re: [AD] OpenGL

["Peter Hull" <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can't we just have an implicit destination like OpenGL? We would just
need another command to set the destination if we wanted to write to a
bitmap.

Anyway I agree with Elias about the extra bitmap; it's a bit clunky.

Pete


On 7/27/06, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 17:54 -0500, Jerry wrote:
> > Either way. It is best to have a clean implementation.
> >
>
> I agree. I'm also still not happy that we need an extra bitmap to draw
> to, if we already have the display. A further problem is, with OpenGL,
> memory bitmaps are totally useless, and wrapping something like FBO's
> onto AL_BITMAP may not work out.
>
> In my opinion, writeable video surfaces are a must have though, so I
> expect this API to change still, possibly the target of all drawing
> commands will be an AL_DISPLAY, and in the (with 4.3 very rarly useful)
> case of writing to a memory bitmap, there could be a special display to
> write to a memory bitmap.
>
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