[Bf-committers] Software OpenGL

[Campbell Barton]

I half expected an "On no not more openGL implimentations to be 
compaible  with" Which is true,
My point is that Mesa actually runs very well and its just some trivial, 
excess redraws that make it less useable.
Also, we can send bug reports to the Mesa development team is its 
somthing wrong. (Unlike badly made hardware)

Should I go ahead and remove redraws from Brush/Crosshair tool?
- Cam


> Hi,
>
> We certainly can make sure our drawing loops are clean, and don't 
> waste  any cpu cycles. If border-drawing did that wrong, the patch is 
> OK. :)
>
> Attempts to make Mesa3d work with Blender is a different topic 
> however.  We already have major issues even being compliant with 
> current level of  3d card drivers, I don't welcome attempts to make it 
> even more  complex...
>
> From reading other OpenGL based projects (all suffering similar 
> issues  like us!) I learned a potential good approach is to add a 
> "OpenGL  Profile" layer, inbetween the OpenGL API and the UI itself.
>
> These "Profiles" can be hardcoded tweaks for all kinds of exceptions  
> certain 3d cards or Workstations have... like an "Irix" profile, or  
> "ATI Laptop" profile, and so on.
>
> It might be the only way out of the non-compliancy issue we suffer  
> from...
>
> -Ton-
>
>
>
> On 27 Apr, 2005, at 2:39, Campbell Barton wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> * Modify redraw loops only to redraw on mouse move
>>
>> This doesn't seem like a way to speed things up. And what about the  
>> millions
>> of hotkeys that Blender uses? I thought the dependency graph was 
>> going  to
>> take care of this.
>>
>> -- Austin
>>
>>  In general you might be right, but in the case of resizing a window  
>> boarder, or drawing the cross hair for bounding box select, It 
>> speeds  things up a great deal.
>>
>>  In software openGL my amd64 3500 took about 10 seconds to finish  
>> drawing the resize boarder XOR, flickering line before it refreshed  
>> the window.
>>
>>  Since its checking for mouse events anyway in the loop, I dont see  
>> why it shouldent check to see if the mouse has moved in before it  
>> bothers with a redraw.
>>  It does speed things up a great deal, no flicker lag.
>>  - My patch.
>>
>> https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php? 
>> func=detail&aid=2480&group_id=9&atid=127
>>
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