February 28, 2005
More OpenGL problems
The weekend I looked into various problems with Xming
- Eclipse and window mapping
Digging into the source on two end, on two systems with two languages causes headaches. The result? I found nothing which could cause the problems. Somewhere either an X11 request or an X11 event gets lost. And I'm lost on it.
I had a testcase running for some time and it did 10,000 iterations without showing the error again so I hope it has magicly vanished *g*
- OpenGL and dynagaph
Another OpenGL program was tested with Xming and failed :-(
Dynagraph is for plotting curves in 3D. But with Xming it display nothing. Maybe this is a problem with the double buffer. I don't know. Foobillard shows similar problems. It seems I'll have to write simple testcases for doublebuffer, pbuffer, textures and everything that is causing problems with Xming right now.
- List of windows in the tray menu
Someone on #xming requested a list of windows in the traybar menu. So i took a look and started cursing Windows95. There are a few users with Windows95 out there and the compatibility with Windows95 causes serious problems with new features. Many nice functions are not available on Windows95. And this makes it hard - if not impossible - to implement several nice features. You'll have to link functions dynamicly and add extra version checks. I'm really thinking about dropping support for Windows95 and NT 4
- Eclipse and window mapping
Digging into the source on two end, on two systems with two languages causes headaches. The result? I found nothing which could cause the problems. Somewhere either an X11 request or an X11 event gets lost. And I'm lost on it.
I had a testcase running for some time and it did 10,000 iterations without showing the error again so I hope it has magicly vanished *g*
- OpenGL and dynagaph
Another OpenGL program was tested with Xming and failed :-(
Dynagraph is for plotting curves in 3D. But with Xming it display nothing. Maybe this is a problem with the double buffer. I don't know. Foobillard shows similar problems. It seems I'll have to write simple testcases for doublebuffer, pbuffer, textures and everything that is causing problems with Xming right now.
- List of windows in the tray menu
Someone on #xming requested a list of windows in the traybar menu. So i took a look and started cursing Windows95. There are a few users with Windows95 out there and the compatibility with Windows95 causes serious problems with new features. Many nice functions are not available on Windows95. And this makes it hard - if not impossible - to implement several nice features. You'll have to link functions dynamicly and add extra version checks. I'm really thinking about dropping support for Windows95 and NT 4
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