[vtkusers] OpenGL Backbuffer on Mac

Sean McBride sean at rogue-research.com
Mon May 29 12:41:18 EDT 2006


On 2006-05-26 06:46, Michael Rice said:

>The vtkRenderWindow::SwapBuffersOff() method turns off swapping the
>backbuffer to the frontbuffer.
>
>On Windows, the vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow::Frame() method checks this flag
>and does not do the swap if it swapping is turned off. The same is true for
>vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow::Frame().
>
>However, on Mac, neither the vtkCarbonRenderWindow::Frame() or
>vtkCocoaRenderWindow::Frame() methods check this flag before doing the swap.
>
>Is there a reason for this?

Since no one else answered... It could simply be an oversight.  Did you
try changing the method on the Mac to behave more like the other two
OSes?  What happened?

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