With double buffering enabled I am doing (strickly 2D-orthographic) incremental screen updates. Basically, calling a series of rectangle/polygon commands to clear regions of the screen and redraw certain items (i.e. animating a handle on a slider). Upon completion I swap the buffers. This works just fine if the window remains static.
However, if I move the window (not a resize) it seems to shift the contents of the window which is identified on the next incremental update. Basically the new data is off by ~2 pixels in either x or y (or both) to the original data.
Does anybody have any ideas? I have some sample code that exhibits this behavior if anyone is interested.
Two things:
You must enforce that the pixelformat you selected has dwFlags PFD_SWAP_COPY set, otherwise it will never work on boards supporting PFD_SWAP_EXCHANGE.
Position invariance should be maintained during window moves, because OpenGL doesn’t really know about window managers and window positions. If you hit this it’s a driver implementation problem.
Do not just set the flag and call ChoosePixelFormat, that function is too dumb. Enumerate pixelformats yourself and check what you got in the pfds.
You probably had PFD_SWAP_COPY formats before, no surprises.
Next step would be to try newer drivers.
With a laptop you need to look for patched *.INF files before you can use the standard NVIDIA drivers.
Originally posted by ZbuffeR:
[b]Hmmm, from the docs I got, the dwFlags PFD_SWAP_COPY and PFD_SWAP_EXCHANGE seem to be only ‘hints’, and may not bet actually enforced.
My 0.02€.[/b]
Right, but if your application relies on PFD_SWAP_COPY behaviour and you get PFD_SWAP_EXCHANGE by accident you’re screwed. Trust me, **** happens and there are a lot of demos and tutorials doing it wrong.
On the other hand PFD_SWAP_EXCHANGE doesn’t really say it exchanges the buffers, it just says that after a SwapBuffer your backbuffer is undefined and you must redraw before the next swap.
Oh, cool the message board has a fricking swear word filter. Let’s see how good it is: **** **** ***** ************.
[This message has been edited by Relic (edited 02-05-2004).]
