Re: Resizing contexts

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Frank C wrote:

> It appears Quesa rebuilds the GL context whenever it's resized, which 
> can take a good _long_ while if you have a lot of textures loaded 
> (pretty much rules out using live-resize windows on OS X). Would it be 
> reasonable to have a GLDrawContext_UpdateSize function to avoid 
> rebuilding textures for a resize event? I'm fairly certain all you 
> have to do is update the viewport and clipping rect - trashing the 
> context isn't needed or desirable.
>
> Comments?

On the Mac, you would also need to call aglUpdateContext, i think.  I 
do not see any analogous wgl call for Windows.  I don't know if that 
means that the wgl layer does not need to be informed of a window 
resize, or if it means that you must recreate the context.
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