cogl 1.9.4

[Robert Bragg <install-module master gnome org>]

About Cogl
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Cogl is a small open source software library for using 3D graphics
hardware to draw pretty pictures. The API departs from the flat state
machine style of OpenGL and is designed to make it easy to write
orthogonal components that can render without stepping on each others
toes. Cogl currently supports OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 and OpenGL > 1.3 (or
1.2 if you have the GL_ARB_multitexture extension), and having Gallium
or D3D backends are options for the future.

News
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  • List of changes since Cogl 1.9.2

  » Visual Studio 2008/2010 project files have landed and are being actively
    maintained by Chun-wei Fan <fanchunwei src gnome org>
  » A basic KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) backend was added so we can run fullscreen
    Cogl applications without X11 on Linux.
  » EGL platforms can now be selected at runtime. Although we've had the ability
    select backends at runtime for a while, up until now all EGL platforms were
    part of one monolithic backend and were mutually exclusive so a platform
    had to be chosen at build time.
  » cogl_matrix_orthographic() was added as a replacement for cogl_matrix_ortho()
    since the OpenGL style of arguments for cogl_matrix_ortho() wasn't consistent
    with the rest of the Cogl API.
  » Experimental cogl_framebuffer_ apis were added for manipulating the
    per-framebuffer modelview matrix stack. The aim is for these to replace
    apis like cogl_rotate/translate/scale because those apis aren't explicitly
    related to a CoglContext which we'd like to avoid so we can remove the
    need for a global CoglContext.
  » Experimental cogl_framebuffer apis were added for manipulating the
    per-framebuffer clip stacks.
  » The internal _cogl_framebuffer_flush_state() function was optimized to do
    a better job of bailing out when no framebuffer state has changed, and
    when state has changed the cost should now scale by the number of changes
    made instead of scaling by the total range of framebuffer state that Cogl
    tracks.
  » Internally we finally removed _cogl_enable() which won't mean much to most
    people but makes the maintainers happy. This happened as part of a rework
    for how attribute state is flushed when drawing which fixed some problems
    with supporting custom attributes and should improve the performance of
    flushing attributes too.
  » We added an experimental CoglSnippets api aiming to greatly simplify how
    developers can incorporate snippets of GLSL code into the pipeline. This is
    a feature that has been on the drawing board for a long time so we're
    really happy that it's finally here. 
    
    *** We'd really love to see people start to play with the snippets API and
    tell us how they get on. The plan is for this API to replace all need for
    developers to use the CoglProgram and CoglShader apis which are rather poor
    copies of the OpenGL APIs for using GLSL which don't map well to Cogl's
    design. ***

  » We've updated Cogl's client side Wayland support
  » We've updated Cogl's compositor side Wayland support, including updating the
    example cogland compositor.
  » We added an SDL window system backend for Cogl, which provides a simple,
    portable way to play with Cogl as a standalone graphics API with basic
    support for input events available from SDL. See examples/cogl-sdl-hello
    to see how that works.
  » We added mainloop integration support to Cogl. Since we want to have the
    ability to use poll() to block for events from some drivers we have introduced
    apis that all Cogl applications are required to use to integrate Cogl
    into their mainloop. For applications using a glib mainloop we've provided
    a GSource for convenience.

  • List of bugs fixed since Cogl 1.8.0

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org:

    #650020 - Visual C++ 2008/2010 Project files to compile Cogl and Cogl-Pango
    #665190 - The conformance test wrapper scripts don't return an exit code
    #665604 - Cogl needs to bind the framebuffer before calling eglSwapBuffers
    #665722 - Build Fixes for COGL master branch
    #665723 - Conformance tests failed (snippets, pipeline_uniforms)
    #667009 - Remove DRM vblank hack

Many thanks to:

  Neil Roberts
  Chun-wei Fan
  Rob Bradford
  Daniel Mustieles
  Fran Diéguez
  Aurimas Černius
  Javier Jardón
  Jorge González
  Joshua Lock
  Seong-ho, Cho
  Tomeu Vizoso
  Yinghua Wang



Download
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http://download.gnome.org/sources/cogl/1.9/cogl-1.9.4.tar.xz (1.08M)
  sha256sum: 3786ace8dbd03901fdd1c14d1bd6ed006573be56982e6691529e6da10009742a