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diff --git a/docs/README.BEOS b/docs/README.BEOS index 4bcb2879705..749390d43ac 100644 --- a/docs/README.BEOS +++ b/docs/README.BEOS @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ In any case, you'll have to download and compile GLUT for BeOS and put libglut.so in the Mesa-3.x/lib/ directory before you can compile the demos/, samples/ and book/ programs. -GLUT for BeOS can be found at: ??? fill-in ??? +GLUT for BeOS can be found at +http://home.beoscentral.com/jehamby/Glut-3.5-x86.zip This is a special version of GLUT adapted for the BeOS. I don't believe Mark Kilgard's normal GLUT distribution includes BeOS @@ -60,6 +61,18 @@ support. +Special Features + +Mesa's implementation of the BGLView class has an extra member +function: CopySubBufferMESA(). It basically works like SwapBuffers() +but it only copies a sub region from the back buffer to the front +buffer. This is a useful optimization for some applications. +If you use this method in your code be sure that you check at runtime +that you're actually using Mesa (with glGetString) so you don't +cause a fatal error when running with Be's OpenGL. + + + Old BeOS Driver Mesa 2.6 had an earlier BeOS driver. It was based on Mesa's Off-screen @@ -76,4 +89,4 @@ work with the new Mesa 3.1 BGLView implementation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -$Id: README.BEOS,v 1.3 1999/02/06 06:32:20 brianp Exp $ +$Id: README.BEOS,v 1.4 1999/02/11 03:52:24 brianp Exp $ |