Re: Should there be one renderer for each view?

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Dair Grant <da...@re...> wrote:

>Could we just keep a proxy GL context around at all time? That seems to
>be the approach they're talking about in QA1031 - something like:
>
>   - texture manager creates a fake gl context on demand
>   - texture manager creates/updates gl textures for qd3d textures
>   - renderer creates contexts that are shared with the TM context
>   - texture manager disposes of fake gl context on shutdown


I can imagine how this might work on the Mac, since you can create a 
GL context without specifying a drawable for it.  But on Windows, you 
have to pass in an HDC when you create the context, and I would 
expect that if the HDC is destroyed, the context becomes unusable.
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