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author | Laszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@digia.com> | 2014-03-07 13:18:34 +0100 |
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committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2014-03-07 17:13:28 +0100 |
commit | ed5e75cf5bb63ce6a7cf23242715b6716c5685e3 (patch) | |
tree | b57d2f60fd21ac138c13fc745f54f05da2308f2f | |
parent | 9152a3bf205bdba0fbff9f4d070a99d7a6460761 (diff) |
Clarify QOpenGLContext::format() docs
Avoid unrealistic expectations where applications would assume that
requestedFormat() == format().
Change-Id: I12dcfda3d86ce26f1cae9771b1fe2203291864db
Reviewed-by: Sean Harmer <sean.harmer@kdab.com>
-rw-r--r-- | src/gui/kernel/qopenglcontext.cpp | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qopenglcontext.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qopenglcontext.cpp index f68915edeb..74771d6826 100644 --- a/src/gui/kernel/qopenglcontext.cpp +++ b/src/gui/kernel/qopenglcontext.cpp @@ -885,6 +885,20 @@ QFunctionPointer QOpenGLContext::getProcAddress(const QByteArray &procName) cons Returns the format of the underlying platform context, if create() has been called. Otherwise, returns the requested format. + + The requested and the actual format may differ. Requesting a given OpenGL version does + not mean the resulting context will target exactly the requested version. It is only + guaranteed that the version/profile/options combination for the created context is + compatible with the request, as long as the driver is able to provide such a context. + + For example, requesting an OpenGL version 3.x core profile context may result in an + OpenGL 4.x core profile context. Similarly, a request for OpenGL 2.1 may result in an + OpenGL 3.0 context with deprecated functions enabled. Finally, depending on the + driver, unsupported versions may result in either a context creation failure or in a + context for the highest supported version. + + Similar differences are possible in the buffer sizes, for example, the resulting + context may have a larger depth buffer than requested. This is perfectly normal. */ QSurfaceFormat QOpenGLContext::format() const { |