On Wednesday 27 June 2012 17:46:32 marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com wrote: > On 27/06/2012 12:14, ext Sean Harmer wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 June 2012 16:30:50 marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com > > > > wrote: > >> On 25/06/2012 13:44, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: > >>> Future plans - Desktop OpenGL 3+ support, ES 3 support > >> > >> We've just added ANGLE support in Qt (-angle <dir>), to enable > >> DirectX usage instead of OpenGL ES 2 on Windows, due to many buggy > >> drivers. > > > > You mean for embedded flavours of Windows right? OpenGL 3+ works fine > > on desktop windows - although getting hold of a Core Profile context > > on Windows via Qt was broken last time I tried it (but that was some > > months ago). > > No, I don't mean for embedded alone. Desktop OpenGL drivers are also of > quite varying quality, and the DirectX drivers are usually better.
I only have access to nVidia boards at present so can't comment on the other manufacturer's driver quality/completeness. > Not to mention that with Windows 8 you might have a hard time getting > access to the OpenGL APIs, depending on which system you are on and how > integrated you want to be. > > No WGL/EGL support for Metro applications afaik, see > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205756.aspx and > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithnativecode/thread/c > 77de65a-1fbb-491f-9f6b-0c4a7b452ec2 and > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/a861d > b02-dce8-4f61-9969-b8a7a7cd55c7 > > (Yes, non-Metro apps can use OpenGL just fine, although reports have > come back that currently the OpenGL drivers are lagging behind the > DirectX ones.) > > No OpenGL for Windows 8 RT (ARM) version either, which should also be a > target. Hmmm, I've not played with Win 8 at all yet. No OpenGL on Metro style apps of Win8 Arm is indeed a PITA. Thanks for the info. Sean _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
