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(...) Found a much more recent post on this indicating that it may still be a problem with current Macs... Also contains a bit more info as to what's really going on. (URL) The only workaround I can think of is to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) (URL) guy found the same bug on his Mac. Writing to the GL_FRONT buffer seems to also write over whatever you may have stashed away in the GL_BACK buffer. The only workaround I can think of is to copy the image to regular system memory, or (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) They should not warrant a Hold review. Put comments in the review, and if you think the issue is serious enough, go for a NoVote review. (...) If the pattern allows, it would be good to add a color-matched ring primitive around the outside of (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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To what extent, if any, should rendering errors caused by primitive substitution warrent a Hold vote on the PT? An example of this would be a disc shaped pattern surrounded by a ndis. Would it be appropritate to add a small, color matching ring (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sounds like the next release it going to be a good one! Out of curiosity, is there a bug in the train motor part? Chris (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) As an update to this comment, I have now placed the glFinish() command and the timing loop into the render instance, and now I get correct behavior. It's clear that Cocoa creates a new thread for each instance, therefore as guessed before, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) So you're saying that if I ask for the GL_RENDERER etc strings after a window resize I'll get the same ones I started with no matter what? (I added some code to check it anyway just in case) That really sux. Who designed that feature, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I looked at the code above, and all it seems to do is tell its OpenGL context to update every time the window is resized. If their glut doesn't do this, then it is broken. As far as I know, there isn't any equivalent to this in Windows. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Found some more info. This makes it even more clear. (URL) it only shows icky Cocoa code. I may have to examine the apple glut sources to see how much of this is actually handled in glut. I wouldn't be suprised to find some bugs there. And I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The OS is selecting the drivers. If I want to select them myself I have to write all sorts of icky OS specific code. (...) It gets worse. I did some searching on this. Apparently, according to the source on this page, I may need to check if my (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Short version, yes, I am still working at Westfield, but no, I am not there at the moment. I am working out of the home office in Worcester. I am printing out my just defended Ph.D. thesis, and when that is handed in to the graduate school (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) When running at 16 bit the ATi drivers are loaded unless I mistakenly type ./ldglite -le -v1024,7400 mini.dat (instead of 740). When the window is set to 800x600 selecting and moving bricks works fine, but selecting and moving behaves badly (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Well, voting's over. I'm waiting to get the tallied votes from Wayne sometime today, and will post them as soon as I can. I'm headed out on Saturday, and may have sproatic access to email for the next week. -Tim (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Hey, do you still work in Westfield? If so, maybe I could drive up there for lunch tomorrow and see all this stuff in action. That might eliminate some of my confusion and guesswork about drivers, modes and versions. Don (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) In that case, I may just have to say don't use it in 16 bit mode. Does ldglite report ATI instead of "Apple Generic" in 16 bit mode? I know the ATI windows drivers on my old 4MB Rage Pro are so bad that they're unusable. However, on windows (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Thanks, I read your other post, so I won't be trying to compile the newer GLUT. The only reason I used to play around with GLUTs was to get LDGLite working correctly. Since discovering that GLUT 2.2.8 does give the pop up menu, I have switched (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) It happens with the 0.95 version to. Other weird things to note. When the stencil buffer isn't disabled, gooble-dee-goo is drawn to the screen. The gobble-dee-goo dissappears when the window is moved. (URL) you check for the amount of VRAM (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) That's a bug. Probably for everyone. I'll have to examine all the messages from the popup windows to see which ones are stolen by the LEDIT mode keyboard handler. (...) I guess this was deliberate. For all the views not available in LEDIT (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Don, OS X is substantially free of such annoyances (thank heavens). Tom (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If it doesn't happen with the 0.9.5 version of ldglite then it's a bug. I suspect it may be the code I wrote to avoid the Windows nagware tooltips and reminder windows. It's supposed to copy the front color buffer into the backbuffer after an (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Don, Here are some comments on the 7/23 version (built from the current.tgz time-stamped early this morning): * Solid part moving mode (-LE) works fine at lower resolutions. I think I tried all of the predefined views. Using -v1024,740 (a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well that makes sense. The bug is worse. (...) Oh, again... sorry, I guess I should read the readme better. I had not noticed that the home and end keys were the keys that did the "out of plane" movements in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 views. In (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Charles, thanks. This solution worked for me. (Sorry Chris, I posted in the ldglite thread before trying this out -- it worked much faster than I thought!) Perhaps the other error was dependent on the libForeground problem. Chris, since (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Chris, thanks for the info. The pop-up menu had been working for me with the GLUT in GLUT.framework 2.2.8 (dated February 11). I got the same error trying to build GLUT from the sample code. --Tom (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Apparently yes, but it has the drawback you noticed below. (...) This is because from certain viewpoints two parallel edges exactly cover each other. In XOR math they cancel each each other out and the part disappears. The Stencil buffer (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I am probably messing up the nomenclature... I think it is supposed to mean that it is the 5th version of GLUT that was made for Mac OS X, and it corresponds to GLUT version 3.0. The 2nd one must be the 7th version of glut made specifically (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Just for fun I tried resizing the screen using the "hidden" risizing box in the corner of the screen. It didn't go very well... I took a screen shot. (URL) guess I won't be using the resizing box any time soon :) If you couldn't tell, I named (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Chris, What is Mac OS X 5.0 and Mac OS X 7.0? I have never heard Mac OS X refered to that way. Do you mean Mac OS X 10.2.5 and Mac OS X 10.2.7? James (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The GLUT I am using is GLUT for Mac OS X 5.0 (GLUT version 3.0) I downloaded it from the Apple Developers site a while ago. The archive is dated Jan 2003. It gives me access to the pop up menu built into LDGLite. (control+click). I don't think (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Sorry, I should read the readme's more closely. (...) Oh, 0.9.5f wouldn't read files created by MBC. Only the first brick would appear. You said it was probably a line ending thing. I just wanted to say that yesterdays current version of (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm glad I saw this on Lugnet's homepage today, or I would have missed the vote. I've been lurking more than anything these past few years, but LDraw is still a very important interest to me. I just can't follow the day to day events as much (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Travis, To date I have used this apporach in both C and Objective-C: The mouse drag subroutine on the first loop through saves the current system time in a global variable. An event is then sent to initiate redrawing of the model. The the model is (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Just a reminder to everyone ... voting ends this evening. So, if you haven't, please do! -Tim (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure I completely understand the above. What are you timing? If you are just timing how long the glFinish takes, then a change in its behavior might not be indicative of a bug in the new OpenGL drivers. And if you time how long you (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) This is a problem I've been wrestling with since I commenced with Objective-C. Normally to engage slow drawing mode what I do is I time the redraw operation by using glFinish(). This command is supposed to prevent the application from (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'll check it out - sounds strange...before there was no problem (...) The Cocoa version still has very weak fault tolerence for corrupt Ldraw data (which is noted in the ReadMe file), todate I've been dealing with these types of crashes on a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) ... (...) I've played this game before. The BSD (or whatever OSX is underneath) linker is more picky about its archives than Linux or (probably) solaris. When people port code from these systems to OSX they sometimes forget to add the extra (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah, I did some "back of the envelope calculations" a while back, and you don't have enough VRAM for all the goodies at the higher resolutions. (URL) wonder if I could fix it by asking for a smaller depth/stencil buffer when the program (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Chris, I have a 400 MHz PowerBook G4, so I'm also in the 8MB VRAM boat. I have experienced the part highlighting problem at higher resolutions you mentioned in the other post at higher resolutions with 0.9.5f, so VRAM seems a likely culprit. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) -le should only affect the current selected PART when you move it with the arrow keys. -le moves an XOR wireframe and -LE moves a solid part. In general, -le seems faster and less buggy. Rotation drawing mode is controled by the menu that you (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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