docs/MESA_release_buffers.spec

   1 Name
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   3     MESA_release_buffers
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   5 Name Strings
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   7     GLX_MESA_release_buffers
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   9 Contact
  10
  11     Brian Paul (brian.paul 'at' tungstengraphics.com)
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  13 Status
  14
  15     Shipping since Mesa 2.0 in October, 1996.
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  17 Version
  18
  19     Last Modified Date:  8 June 2000
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  21 Number
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  23     217
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  25 Dependencies
  26
  27     OpenGL 1.0 or later is required.
  28     GLX 1.0 or later is required.
  29
  30 Overview
  31
  32     Mesa's implementation of GLX is entirely implemented on the client side.
  33     Therefore, Mesa cannot immediately detect when an X window or pixmap is
  34     destroyed in order to free any ancilliary data associated with the window
  35     or pixmap.
  36
  37     The glxMesaReleaseBuffers() function can be used to explicitly indicate
  38     when the back color buffer, depth buffer, stencil buffer, and/or accum-
  39     ulation buffer associated with a drawable can be freed.
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  41 IP Status
  42
  43     Open-source; freely implementable.
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  45 Issues
  46
  47     None.
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  49 New Procedures and Functions
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  51     Bool glXReleaseBuffersMESA( Display *dpy, GLXDrawable d );
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  53 New Tokens
  54
  55     None.
  56
  57 Additions to Chapter 3 of the GLX 1.3 Specification (Functions and Errors)
  58
  59     The function
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  61         Bool glXReleaseBuffersMESA( Display *dpy, GLXDrawable d );
  62
  63     causes all software ancilliary buffers (back buffer, depth, stencil,
  64     accum, etc) associated with the named drawable to be immediately
  65     deallocated.  True is returned if <d> is a valid Mesa GLX drawable,
  66     else False is returned.  After calling glXReleaseBuffersMESA, the
  67     drawable should no longer be used for GL rendering.  Results of
  68     attempting to do so are undefined.
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  70
  71 GLX Protocol
  72
  73     None, since this is a client-side operation.
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  75 Errors
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  77     None.
  78
  79 New State
  80
  81     None.
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  83 Revision History
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  85     8 June 2000 - initial specification