Re: [Freeglut-developer] Feature suggestion.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

I think we are *way* over-thinking and over complicating this
pbuffer business.

Stop and think what people actually use these for.

Mostly it's so you can use OpenGL with full hardware accelleration
to render an image that will eventually be used as a texture.

That's really the only use.

All we need freeglut to do is to create the rendering context and
turn it on so the application can render to it.

I can't imagine any time you'd want subwindows and all that
complication.

If the pbuffer can't be hardware accellerated then we are doing
the application a disservice by providing a pbuffer because it
will be unusably slow.  The application would be better off being
told "sorry - no pbuffer support" - and let it cope with some kind
of sensible fallback.

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