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diff --git a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/visualcanvas/adaptations.qdoc b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/visualcanvas/adaptations.qdoc index 3fd92177f9..d80c72e0f1 100644 --- a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/visualcanvas/adaptations.qdoc +++ b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/visualcanvas/adaptations.qdoc @@ -31,18 +31,14 @@ \section1 Scene Graph Adaptations in Qt Quick -Originally Qt Quick only had one available renderer for parsing the scene graph -and rendering the results to a render target. This renderer is now the default -OpenGL Renderer which supports rendering either using the OpenGL ES 2.0 or -OpenGL 2.0 (with framebuffer object extensions) APIs. The Qt Quick APIs have -originally been designed with the assumption that OpenGL is always available. -However, it is now possible to use other graphics API's to render Qt Quick -scenes using the scene graph APIs. +Originally Qt Quick always relied on OpenGL (OpenGL ES 2.0 or OpenGL 2.0) for parsing +the scene graph and rendering the results to a render target. From Qt 5.8 onwards +Qt Quick also supports rendering in software and with Direct3D 12. \section1 Switching between the adaptation used by the application -The default of the OpenGL, or - in Qt builds with disabled OpenGL support - the -software adaptation, can be overridden either by using an environment variable +The default rendering backend is still OpenGL, or - in Qt builds with disabled OpenGL support - +the software renderer. This can be overridden either by using an environment variable or a C++ API. The former consists of setting the \c{QT_QUICK_BACKEND} or the legacy \c{QMLSCENE_DEVICE} environment variable before launching applications. The latter is done by calling QQuickWindow::setSceneGraphBackend() early in the |