Problem with Freeglut on Windows, SwapBuffers not detected

Alexander Monakov amonakov at ispras.ru
Sun Aug 4 10:41:45 PDT 2013


On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, Nigel Stewart wrote:
> > My program does seem to work with apitrace, but the tracing does not
> > see the frame swaps, created through glutSwapBuffers.
> 
> The implementation of fgPlatformGlutSwapBuffers for Windows appears to
> be merely a call to SwapBuffers, which is a gdi32 call, not WGL.

See https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/issues/122 .  José says SwapBuffers
calls wglSwapBuffers internally.

Perhaps this is no longer true in Windows 8?

Alexander


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