Re: [Plib-devel] Another New Demo Program for PW

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

Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG wrote:
> To coin a phrase, I think you are being slightly X-centric <grin>.

No - there is certainly multisampling under Windows.

> I don't
> see anything about multisampling in the MSVC documentation ...

Yeah - well, Microsoft don't exactly enthusiastically support OpenGL.
OpenGL can do it under Windows *for*sure* - but you'll have to look
away from Microsoft to get the information.   nVidia or ATI perhaps?

> so I guess Windows will simply continue to ignore that parameter.

That would be a disaster!   Multisampling is very important these days.

> We do have another parameter in "pwInit", though, the "num_samples", which I
> hadn't noticed last Friday.  Suggestions?

Ah - now you come to mention it - that is the number of multisample samples.

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