Entice Designer 0.8.2 release

[Don Clugston]

Saaa wrote:
>> Except from what I understand, ultimately they got it so it _does_ work in 
>> a window just like it does in XP:
>>
>> Found this from a quick search:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/winperf/archive/2007/04/04/opengl-and-windows-vista.aspx
>> """
>> Another thing that has left a lot of people confused has been around 
>> OpenGL applications and how they work with the new desktop composition 
>> system, called DWM. DWM is implemented using Direct3D 9, and as such it 
>> was originally thought that OpenGL applications could not interoperate 
>> with DWM and DWM would need to shut down in the presence of an OpenGL 
>> application. This is not the case. Windows Vista provides a mechanism for 
>> hardware vendors to use to integrate an OpenGL application with DWM, which 
>> acts in the exact same manner as D3D9 and GDI integration with DWM via 
>> shared surfaces (a new feature of WDDM).
>> """
>>
>> So in the end it sounds like all's right with the world.  Except this 
>> lingering bad taste in my mouth.  Even if they didn't do it this time, it 
>> shows that Microsoft is willing to make OpenGL (and by extension any 
>> not-invented-here API) a 2nd class citizen at the drop of a hat.
>>
>> --bb
> 
> That it lingers a bitter taste in your mouth is a good example of how 
> microsoft is looked at :)
> How does 'making everything work nicely even though they didn't have to' 
> make you think they were willing to make OpenGL a 2th class citizen?

I think exactly because "they didn't have to". Their OS monopoly gives 
them enormous power -- why *should* they make everything work nicely? 
OpenGL has one of the biggest lobby groups of anything which could be 
affected.
See how they almost disabled support for 80-bit floating point in Win64; 
it's only because of Walter that it stayed. They were ready to deny 
access to the hardware.
Are there any similar-sized monopolies of 'essential services' with so 
much freedom? (Imagine if there were rumours that your electricity 
supplier was considering moving to 68Hz. 10% of all electrical products 
would stop working!) The fact that it's plausible that OpenGL could 
become a second-class citizen is quite scary.