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Feature requests / Support robust context creation
« on: January 31, 2016, 03:40:43 pm »
Hello everyone,
I'd like to see that SFML allows the creation of robust OpenGL contexts. This is related to the GL_ARB_robustness extension, which got part of core OpenGL in 4.1. The thing SFML would need to add is GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness (for X11) and WGL_ARB_create_context_robustness (for windows). The benefit of a robust OpenGL context is that the programmer will get notified when a graphics reset happens and he can handle the behaviour of the program in that case. The glfw library does already allow to use this feature by adding new context creation flags, see here for reference. I think this would be a very useful feature for everyone using SFML with OpenGL.
Greetings
feliwir
I'd like to see that SFML allows the creation of robust OpenGL contexts. This is related to the GL_ARB_robustness extension, which got part of core OpenGL in 4.1. The thing SFML would need to add is GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness (for X11) and WGL_ARB_create_context_robustness (for windows). The benefit of a robust OpenGL context is that the programmer will get notified when a graphics reset happens and he can handle the behaviour of the program in that case. The glfw library does already allow to use this feature by adding new context creation flags, see here for reference. I think this would be a very useful feature for everyone using SFML with OpenGL.
Greetings
feliwir