Improved QPainter API for allowing native painting in GL / VG.

Previously we were using QPaintEngine::syncState() which is not ideal
naming-wise, since it actually prepares for native painting instead of
syncing the painter's state to native state.

Reviewed-by: Trond

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-4.6.0 b/dist/changes-4.6.0
index 8c2c2c815c..194d670674 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.6.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.6.0
@@ -49,10 +49,13 @@ information about a particular change.
    this is that Nokia focuses on OpenGL for desktop hardware accelerated
    rendering.
 
- - When mixing OpenGL and QPainter calls you need to first call syncState()
-   on the paint engine, for example "painter->paintEngine()->syncState()".
-   This is to ensure that the engine flushes any pending drawing and sets up
-   the GL modelview/projection matrices properly.
+ - When mixing OpenGL and QPainter calls you need to surround your custom
+   OpenGL calls with QPainter::beginNativePainting() and
+   QPainter::endNativePainting().
+   This is to ensure that the paint engine flushes any pending drawing and sets
+   up the GL modelview/projection matrices properly before you can issue custom
+   OpenGL calls, and to let the paint engine synchronize to the painter state
+   before resuming regular QPainter based drawing.
 
  - Graphics View has undergone heavy optimization work, and as a result of
    this work, the following behavior changes were introduced.