On 12/22/11 11:26 AM, Nathan Kidd wrote: > Trivia: I don't know why one would do this, but the way VGL hooks > glXGetClientString, and _isremote is implemented, you technically could > get away with passing in a bogus DPY, (though the API docs don't > explicitly say that Xlib won't fall back to its error handler instead of > just returning a NULL return value, in this case.)
But if the goal is to detect VGL, you want the code to succeed in a non-VGL environment as well, and it's not guaranteed that it would with a bogus display handle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Devel mailing list VirtualGL-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-devel
