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| author | Venugopal Shivashankar <venugopal.shivashankar@digia.com> | 2015-03-24 15:22:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Venugopal Shivashankar <venugopal.shivashankar@digia.com> | 2015-03-30 11:01:00 +0000 |
| commit | 78c6a8d61218dbe09c89653691b54ae17d419a31 (patch) | |
| tree | 268fcd4247dfe57627f3a31b5699c69a073861e1 | |
| parent | c7d692641ad94e45795e92c1c294f39073d6f930 (diff) | |
| download | qtdoc-78c6a8d61218dbe09c89653691b54ae17d419a31.tar.gz | |
Doc: Updated information about using -opengl on Windows.
Change-Id: I2989f2c850b6a899dc399698c54bc321c0582572
Reviewed-by: Topi Reiniö <topi.reinio@digia.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/configure.qdoc | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/configure.qdoc b/doc/src/configure.qdoc index 9a378096..98a5d0c7 100644 --- a/doc/src/configure.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/configure.qdoc @@ -248,20 +248,20 @@ \section1 OpenGL Options for Windows On Windows, Qt can be configured with the system OpenGL or with \l{ANGLE}. - By default, configure uses ANGLE, which is bundled with the Qt - sources, but requires the DirectX SDK. Through ANGLE, OpenGL ES 2.0 is - mapped to DirectX APIs. OpenGL applications can then be deployed to Windows - computers with older OpenGL APIs, without requiring that the latest - OpenGL version be installed in the system. + By default, Qt is configured to use ANGLE, which is bundled with Qt and + depends on the DirectX SDK. ANGLE enables running Qt applications that + depend on OpenGL, without installing the latest OpenGL libraries. - The \c -opengl option configures Qt to use the OpenGL in the target system - or a different version of OpenGL ES. + The \c -opengl option can be used to configure Qt to use + the OpenGL in the target system, a different version of OpenGL ES (with or + without ANGLE), or dynamically switch between the available OpenGL + implementations. \code configure.bat -opengl desktop \endcode - With the \c desktop option, Qt uses the OpenGL installed in Windows, + With the \c desktop option, Qt uses the OpenGL installed on Windows, requiring that the OpenGL in the target Windows machine is compatible with the application. The \c -opengl option accepts two versions of OpenGL ES, \c es2 for OpenGL ES 2.0 or \c es1 for OpenGL ES Common Profile. @@ -270,4 +270,8 @@ configure.bat -opengl es2 \endcode + You can also use \c{-opengl dynamic}, which enable applications to + dynamically switch between the available options at runtime. For more + details about the benefits of using dynamic GL-switching, see + \l{Graphics Drivers}. */ |