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What's new in OGLplus 0.67.0

Nov 7, 2015
  • LOW_PROFILE versions of the SizeType and BigSizeType types have been added.
  • Some problems with building in the LOW_PROFILE mode have been fixed.
  • The GL version and extension detection in the build system has been improved.
  • Other minor changes have been made to the build system.
  • The Quickbook documentation has been updated.

New in OGLplus 0.66.0 (Nov 7, 2015)

  • The DeferredHandler class and the Outcome template have been refactored.
  • New overload of Texture::Wrap has been added.
  • The ClientContext and its SettingStack helper classes have been updated.
  • Libpng allocation checks have been added to the PNG image loader.
  • The GL3W include path has been fixed.
  • Minor fixes in the build system have been made.
  • The Quickbook documentation has been updated.

New in OGLplus 0.65.0 (Nov 7, 2015)

  • The devel/testing implementation of EGL was updated to support multisampling.
  • The GLX and EGL example harnesses were refactored and updated
  • to use multisampling when the samples option is specified.
  • The ViewportIndex and DrawBufferIndex types were added.
  • Context and ClientContext were updated to use the new types.
  • A wrapper for NV_fragment_coverage_to_color was added.
  • The PolygonMode enumeration was updated.
  • Most of the examples were changed to use GLSL 120/130/140/150.
  • Several bugs and problems were fixed.
  • The build system was updated to detect the availability of C++ override.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.64.0 (Aug 13, 2015)

  • The DeferredHandler and the Outcome classes which allow to defer and/or cancel calling of error handlers were added.
  • New overloads of Shader::Compile, Shader::CompileInclude, Program::Link and Program::Validate and ProgramPipeline::Validate, which return Outcome instead of handling errors eagerly were added.
  • Some of the examples were changes to show the usage of the new features.
  • Some of the examples were changed to use GLSL 120/130/140/150.
  • Some of the older examples were removed.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.63.0 (Jun 27, 2015)

  • Some clang -Weverything compilation warnings were fixed.
  • New overloads of CameraMatrix::Perspective functions were added.
  • The internals of OALplus and EGLplus were refactored.
  • Support for Shader-storage buffer objects was added.
  • A bug in the Cloud and BrushedMetal image generators were fixed.
  • A problem with the NV path command enumeration was fixed.

New in OGLplus 0.62.0 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • The SizeType and BigSizeType classes were updated and arithmetic operators were added.
  • A missing-identifier bug was fixed in images::Image.
  • Some compiler warnings were silenced.
  • Several other minor changes were made to the internals.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.61.0 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • The SizeType and BigSizeType classes were added and some occurences of GLsizei and GLsizeiptr were replaced.
  • Wrappers for the ARB_clip_control extension were added.
  • The ALErrorCode, ALCErrorCode and ALUTErrorCode enumerations were added to OALplus.
  • The ErrorAL exception class was added to OALplus.
  • The GL version detection in the build system and the GLUT example harness were updated.
  • Some compiler warnings were silenced.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.60.0 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • The Boolean wrapper was updated, the operator ~ was added.
  • The Object::HasInstance function was added.
  • The native GL context wrappers were updated.
  • The DSA Texture, Buffer and Framebuffer were partially refactored.
  • The SingleFace enumeration was added.
  • The FragmentData and FragmentDataSlot typedefs were added.
  • A new standalone example was added.
  • The oalplus::CurrentContext class was renamed to ContextMadeCurrent.
  • Missing #ifdefs were added around specializations of EnumAssocType.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.59.0 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • Problems with move construction and move-assignment of objects were fixed.
  • The Boolean wrappers were added.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.58.0 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • Noexcept specifiers were added to some functions.
  • The oalplus::GetALName function was added.
  • Small changes were made to oalplus::Listener and Device wrappers.
  • Several assignments constructors were fixed to prevent problems with self assignment.
  • The GL/AL object wrappers were refactored.
  • Most of the standalone examples were backported to MSVC.
  • Some MSVC warnings were fixed.
  • Collisions between preprocessor macros and variable names were fixed.
  • A problem that caused access violations in GL feature tests was fixed.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.57.0 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • The setting stack functionality in oglplus::ClientContext was reimplemented.
  • Noexcept specifiers were added to some functions.
  • The script for auto-generating of the enumeration headers was updated, now almost everything related to the enumerations is auto-generated.
  • A bug in the definition of EnumValueRange was fixed.
  • Minor problems in the GLSL shaders in the examples were fixed.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.56.0 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • The new state getter/setter functions were added to oglplus::Context.
  • The oglplus::ClientContext class was updated, wrappers for other GL state variables and functions were added.
  • A problem with the wxGL example harness on Windows was fixed.
  • A missing include was added to the GLFW3 example harness.
  • The GLM interoperability classes were updated to work with both older and newer versions of GLM.
  • Minor fixes were made in the enumeration types.
  • The automatically-generated enumeration headers were and the related tools were updated.
  • The EnumAssocType and EnumAssocGLType metafunctions were added.
  • The build system was updated, check of support for strongly-typed enum template parameters was added.
  • The quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.55.0 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • The EnumToClass helper template and its specializations were added.
  • Some of the base classes of oglplus::Context were refactored and updated.
  • The oglplus::ClientContext class, maintaining and managing GL state was added.
  • Some of the shape builders were backported to platforms not supporting primitive restart indices.
  • A bug in the Texture::Active getter was fixed.
  • The quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.54.0 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • The TransformFeedback::Activator and Pauser classes were moved to namespace level.
  • A bug in Matrix-by-scalar multiplcation was fixed.
  • A new overload of Context::ClearColor with ColorClearValue parameter was added.
  • Minor changes were made in the GLSLSource and BufferSize classes
  • The build system was updated make C++ SCOPED_ENUMS a requirement.
  • Clang++ warnings and errors were fixed.
  • MSVC warnings related to conversion to bool were fixed.
  • Some of the shape builders were backported to platforms not supporting primitive restart indices.
  • The quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.53.0 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • GL version detection in the build system was updated and should now be even more reliable.
  • Minor changes were made to the ObjHandle wrapper.
  • A bug in vector uniform setting was fixed.
  • The quickbook docs were updated.

New in OGLplus 0.52.0 (Sep 23, 2014)

  • The tools for automatic-generation of the enumeration headers were updated and the headers were re-generated.
  • The OutputData class was added and used in Texture.
  • Regressions in the text rendering utilities were fixed.
  • Regressions in GLES v3 and android support were fixed.
  • Wrappers and enumerations for KHR_blend_equation_advanced were added.
  • New constructor was added to the ProgVar template.
  • The Object template was refactored, ObjHandle was added.
  • The documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.51.0 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • Smart enumeration values were added to OALplus and EGLplus.
  • The QueryTarget enumeration was updated.
  • The LimitQuery enumeration was updated.
  • The ErrorCode enumeration was updated.
  • Detection of GL 4.5 and ARB_direct_state_access was added to the build system.
  • Wrappers for GL 4.5 / ARB_direct_state_access functions for:
  • Texture
  • Buffer
  • Framebuffer
  • Renderbuffer
  • TransformFeedback
  • VertexArray
  • Vertex attributes were added.
  • The EXT_direct_state_access wrappers were moved to the ./oglplus/dsa/ext subdirectory.
  • The EXT_dsa wrappers were renamed from DSA{Object} to DSA{Object}EXT.
  • Wrappers for ARB_sparse_buffer and ARB_robustness were added.
  • The Query class was updated
  • The BeginConditionalRender and EndConditionalRender functions were added.
  • The ConditionalRenderMode enumeration was added.
  • The ConditionalRender class was added.
  • Several header files were renamed.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.50.0 (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Support for different methods of GL object construction was added.
  • The implementation of smart-enums was updated and the smart enum-values were added.
  • The context::ClearBuffers class was renamed to context::BufferClearing.
  • The Capability enumeration was updated.
  • The StaticGroup class template was updated.
  • The Range utilities were updated, the Contains, Has and CountIf
  • functionw were added.
  • The StrQueryRange::Size member function was added.
  • The implementation of Nothing was moved from ./detail/ to ./utils/.
  • The Error::Code function was added.
  • The MultiplyBy and DivideBy functions in Vector were renabled to
  • Multiply and Divide.
  • The FragData class was added.
  • The Set function was removed from UniformBlock.
  • New constructors and comparison operators were added to StrCRef.
  • All occurences of StrLit were replaced by StrCRef and the StrLit class
  • was completely removed.
  • Syntax sugar operators for Sampler were added.
  • The MissingFunction exception class was moved into a separate file.
  • Several examples were updated and/or fixed.
  • Detection of GL version 4.5 was added to the build system.
  • The Quickbook documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.49.0 (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Wrappers for the ARB_shading_language_include extension was added.
  • The Program::Build functions were added.
  • The GLSLString and GLSLStrings classes were added.
  • The GLSLSource class was updated.
  • The implementation of Shader::Source and ShaderProgram was updated.
  • The BufferSize and BufferData types were added.
  • The {DSA}Buffer::Data and {DSA}Buffer::SubData functions were changed to use the BufferSize and BufferData types.
  • The {DSA}Buffer::RawData functions were added.
  • The {DSA}Buffer::Resize functions were added.
  • The Indices() and Instructions() member functions of the shape generators/loaders were made more generic.
  • Several bugs were fixed:
  • Some shader errors in examples.
  • A problem in the ObjMesh loader was fixed.
  • Several problems in the build-system
  • Several examples were updated to show the usage of the new features.
  • The documentation was updated.
  • The pre-generated MSVC10 solution and projects were removed.

New in OGLplus 0.48.0 (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Wrapper for the ARB_copy_image extension was added.
  • Wrapper for NV_copy_image and GLX_NV_copy image was added.
  • The BezierCurves class was updated:
  • Support for non-connected sequences of curves was added.
  • The Derivative function was added.
  • New constructors were added.
  • The capture functions of oalplus::Device class were split into a separate class - CaptureDevice.
  • The Specifier, CaptureSpecifier and Extensions functions were added to oalplus::Device.
  • The oalplus::ALCError::Device function was added.
  • One of the older examples was removed.
  • Several bugs were fixed:
  • A missing #ifdef guard was added to texture.
  • A problem with Pango/Cairo text rendering was fixed.
  • The compile-time configuration options were changes.
  • The oglplus::Error::GLLib function was added.
  • The oglplus::Error::GLFuncName function was renamed to GLFunc.
  • The oalplus::Error::ALLibName and ALFuncName functions were renamed to ALLib and ALFunc.
  • The eglplus::Error::EGLFuncName function was renamed to EGLFunc.
  • The generated config headers oglplus/fix_gl_version.hpp and oglplus/site_config.hpp were moved to oglplus/config/fix_gl_version.hpp and oglplus/config/site.hpp.
  • The Boost.Quickbook-based documentation has been started.

New in OGLplus 0.47.0 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • The Group template class was added.
  • The compile-time configuration headers were split into separate files.
  • The Hardwired program class was removed.
  • The QuickProgram class was reimplemented.
  • Added wrapper for NV_draw_texture extension.
  • The voronoi/worley cell image generators were added.
  • Updated the error handling, added the Value and Limit functions to Error.
  • Moved some of the functions to the implement/ directory.
  • Re-added support for GLM vector and matrix uniforms.
  • Added support for GLM uniform typechecking.
  • Two new examples were added.
  • One of the older examples were removed.
  • Some of the existing examples were updated.
  • Updates to the build system:
  • Added detection of KHR_debug availability.
  • Added the BOOST_NO_CXX11_* macros.

New in OGLplus 0.46.0 (May 30, 2014)

  • This release brings complete rewrite of several key parts, including
  • the object and GPU program variable wrappers, error reporting and handling,
  • source directory structure, and others. Refer to the relase notes for this
  • release for further details.

New in OGLplus 0.45.0 (May 1, 2014)

  • The new object binding interface was updated, the DefaultTexture, NoBuffer, NoVertexArray, NoRenderbuffer, NoProgram, NoProgramPipeline and NoSampler classes were added.
  • Context::Direct(object) function for providing direct state access wrapper for an object was added.
  • Wrappers for native (GLX and WGL) GL context and surface were added.
  • The ExposeGLName function replacing Expose(Object) was added.
  • The Capability enumeration was updated.
  • TransformFeedback was updated, BeginPoints, BeginLines and BeginTriangles convenience functions were added.
  • The images::SortNWMap image generator for creating images encoding a bitonic sorting network was added.
  • The wrapper for ARB_robustness extension was updated:
  • The ARB_robustness class was added.
  • ContextFlagBit enumeration was updated.
  • The GraphicsResetStatus and ResetNotificationStrategy enumerations were added.
  • The DSABufferEXT::TypedMap class was refactored into the DSABufferRawMapEXT and DSABufferTypedMapEXT classes.
  • Wrappers for the NV_shader_buffer_load and NV_texture_barrier extensions were added.
  • Sources and cmake scripts for building the oglplus, oalplus and eglplus link libraries were added.
  • The build system was updated.
  • The --search-dir was added to the configure.py script.
  • A new example showing the usage of images::SortNWMap was added.
  • The documentation was updated and several bugs were fixed.

New in OGLplus 0.44.0 (Apr 17, 2014)

  • The NV_path_rendering wrapper was updated:
  • The PathNVSpec and BriefPathNVSpec classes were added.
  • Enumerations were moved into separate headers and updated.
  • New functions were added to PathNV and PathArrayNV.
  • The ARB_compatibility wrapper implementation was refactored and updated.
  • New wrappers for EXT_direct_state_access functions were added.
  • The GLM adaptor was updated.
  • The build system was updated:
  • Support for SDL and GLX in the GL version and extension detection was added.
  • The GL version detection helpers were updated.
  • The cloud_trace advanced example was updated.
  • The Blender blend file loader was updated.
  • A bug in the OBJ file loader was fixed.
  • Several breaking changes were made:
  • The Exposed class and the Expose function was removed. The FriendOf class should be used instead.
  • The AutoBind class was removed.
  • The Bound class and the Bind free function were marked as deprecated and prepared for removal.
  • A new API for binding of objects and binding querying was added to Context.
  • Several of the older oglplus examples were removed including projects from the manually generated MSVC solutions.
  • Many of the existing examples were updated to show the new features.

New in OGLplus 0.43.0 (Mar 26, 2014)

  • The OptionalUniform::TrySet function was added.
  • The Current and AutoRebind template classes were added.
  • The metaballs seamless texture image generators were added.
  • New functions and operators were added to Angle.
  • The TextureFilter enumeration and related functions were added.
  • Syntax sugar operator for Buffer::SubData was added.
  • Syntax sugar operators for specifying texture level image were added.
  • Syntax sugar operator for setting transform feedback varyings was added
  • to Program.
  • The wrapper for DSA compatibility matrix stack functions was refactored.
  • A new advanced example 'cloud_trace' was added.
  • Several of the existing examples were updated to show the new features.
  • Detection of the NV_copy_image extension was added to the build system.
  • The detection of C++11 chrono library was updated in the build system.
  • Several problems with the detection of third party libraries were fixed.
  • Some parts of the code were reorganized and moved to separate source files.

New in OGLplus 0.42.0 (Feb 14, 2014)

  • The Format and InternalFormat typedef were added to Texture.
  • The images::ImageSpec class was added.
  • The ClearImage, ClearSubImage, InvalidateImage, InvalidateSubImage and Image functions were added to Texture.
  • An overload of Renderbuffer::Storage accepting images::ImageSpec was added.
  • Several syntax-sugar operators for specifying the attributes and simple manipulation of Texture, Buffer, Framebuffer and Renderbuffer were added.
  • The ContextFlagBit and ContextProfileBit enumerations were added.
  • The ProfileMask and Flags and the NumShadingLanguageVersion,
  • ShadingLanguageVersion and ShadingLanguageVersion functions were added to Context.
  • Multisampling-related functions were added to Context.
  • The ProgramResourceProperty enumeration was updated.
  • A bug in the GLSLSource class, related to reading GLSL from input streams was fixed.
  • Changes to the build system:
  • Updated GL version detection.
  • Updated the configure.py script to use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
  • A two examples were added and several of the existing examples were updated to show the usage of the new features.
  • One of the older examples was removed.
  • Several documentation updates were made.

New in OGLplus 0.41.0 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • The ShaderProgram class was added.
  • The BufferMapAccess enumeration was updated.
  • The Unmap, FlushRange and FlushElements functions were added to Buffer maps.
  • The InvalidateData and InvalidateSubData functions were added to Buffer;
  • The FramebufferBuffer enumeration was added.
  • The Invalidate function was added to Framebuffer.
  • The EnumArray template for passing of arrays of enum values was added.
  • Wrappers for the glClearBuffer functions were added.
  • A new harness for OGLplus examples using Qt5 was added.
  • An unofficial X11/glX-based implementation of the EGL API, with several
  • extensions was added.
  • Support for client extensions were added to EGLplus.
  • eglplus::Context was updated, a new overload of MakeCurrent was added,
  • and the Release member function was added.
  • Several examples were updated to show the new features.
  • A new script for rendering videos from OGLplus examples was added.
  • Several problems in the build system were fixed.

New in OGLplus 0.40.0 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Experimental support for OpenGL ES 3.0 was added.
  • A first example for the Android platform, usable with the Android NDK
  • with GLESv3 was added.
  • The Texture::GetImage function was added.
  • The Buffer::TypedMap template was re-factored into two namespace level
  • classes: BufferRawMap and BufferTypedMap.
  • New constructors were added to Vector.
  • The images::FilteredImage template base class was reimplemented.
  • The images::Transformed class was renamed to images::TransformComponents.
  • The images::FlipImageAxes filter was added.
  • The XPMImage loader was updated to support non-standard 3D XPM images.
  • Implementations of multiple functions were moved to the implement/ directory.
  • Several bugs were fixed.
  • The build system was updated:
  • Detection of GL version was updated, the automatically-generated
  • oglplus/fix_gl_version.hpp file was added.
  • Problem with Pango/Cairo detection was fixed.
  • A problem with building the OGLplus library was fixed.
  • Several other bugs were fixes.

New in OGLplus 0.39.0 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • The PNG class was renamed to PNGImage.
  • The XPMImage class was added.
  • The Quaternion template class was added.
  • The SLERP functor for Quaternion and Vector was added.
  • The Vector::Unit constructor function was added.
  • The Vector::Normalize function was added.
  • The CameraMatrix::ScreenStretch constructor function was added.
  • The Angle::ArcSin and Angle::ArcCos constructor functions were added.
  • The *= and /= operators were added to Angle.
  • Overloads of the Bind function were added to the DSATexture, DSARenderbuffer
  • and DSABuffer.
  • A bug in the LinearGradient class was fixed.
  • A bug in the pango/cairo text renderer was fixed.
  • The bitmap glyph-based text renderer was made compatible with MSVC11.
  • The inline keyword was added to the shader user-defined literals.
  • The const specifier was added to the data pointer parameters in Buffer::Data
  • and Buffer::SubData.
  • Cleanup and minor optimizations were made in the oglplus and standalone
  • examples.
  • The video frame output was updated in the example harnesses to support
  • custom resolutions.
  • A problem with the XML debug output was fixed.
  • Several updates to the build system were made, the FOLDER property was added.
  • The documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.38.0 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • The Group class template for grouping externally managed objects was added, together with specializations implementing ARB_multi_bind operations on Buffer, Sampler and Texture.
  • The DSAFramebufferEXT, DSARenderbufferEXT and DSAVertexArrayEXT classes implementing direct-state-access operations were added.
  • Forwarding headers defining the DSATexture, DSABuffer, DSAFrameBuffer, DSARenderbuffer, DSAVertexArray and DSAVertexArrayAttrib were added.
  • The Managed class template was updated to be compatible with the direct-state-access objects.
  • A new example was added and one of the older examples was updated to show the usage of the direct-state-access classes.
  • The BoundingSphere functions in the shape builders were updated to use the Sphere class instead of Vector for the return value.
  • The FOLDER properties were added to the build system to put targets into solution folders when they are supported.

New in OGLplus 0.37.0 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • The DSABufferEXT class, a wrapper for direct state access buffer operations was added.
  • The BufferMapAccess enumeration was reimplemented.
  • The BufferStorageBit enumeration was added.
  • Support for ARB_buffer_storage was added.
  • Support for ARB_bindless_texture was added.
  • Support for ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture, ARB_texture_stencil8 and ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge was added.
  • The BufferTarget enumeration was updated.
  • A problem in the Texture::Swizzle* functions was fixed.
  • The SimpleSubdivSphere and SubdivSphere shape parameteric builders were added.
  • The GL version and extension detection in the build system was refactored and partialy reimplemented.
  • The code for finding various third-party libraries in the build system was refactored and updated.
  • Identifiers reserved by standard C++ starting with underscore and an uppercase letter were replaced.
  • Support for GLFW-3 was added to the build system and a GLFW-3-based example harness was added.
  • Several new examples showing the new features were added.
  • The documentation has been updated - a tutorial explaining how the library can be built and used was added.

New in OGLplus 0.36.0 (Sep 13, 2013)

  • General code cleanup was performed - implementations of larger functions
  • were moved into separate files in the /implement/ directory and its subdirs.
  • This should make the headers less cluttered and more readable.
  • Some functions were also moved into the library.
  • Support for fullscreen mode was added to the GLUT-based example harness.
  • Reusable filters for the ARB_debug_output extension wrappers were added.
  • A wrapper for the KHR_debug extension was added.
  • An XSLT template for formatting the XML output from the ARB_debug_output or
  • KHR_debug wrappers was added.
  • PolygonMode getter was added to OGLplus context.
  • The oglplus shapes::ShapeAnalyzer utility was added.
  • An example showing the usage of the ShapeAnalyzer was added.
  • An example showing the usage of the Blender file parser was added.
  • Ambuguity in the CamMatrix::Perspective function was fixed.
  • A new constructor was added to some specializations of Vector.
  • Typos in the MaxAnisotropy and Anisotropy getters of Texture were fixed.
  • The documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.35.0 (Sep 13, 2013)

  • Mostly a bugfix release.
  • OGLplus changes:
  • The all-in-one 'library' header file was update, some of the functions
  • from ObjMesh and from the image generators were moved into the lib.
  • The oglplus/image.hpp header was moved to oglplus/images/image.hpp.
  • A problem with 'None' being defined as a PP symbol on some plattforms
  • was fixed in the implementation of Program.
  • Changes to examples:
  • Some minor bugs were fixed in the OGLplus examples.
  • Changes to the build system:
  • The detection of GL version and GL extensions was reimplemented
  • to be more robust and reliable.
  • The dependencies/requirements for most examples were updated accordingly.
  • Detection if the OGLplus library can be built was added.
  • The detection of C++11 variadic templates was updated to be more reliable.

New in OGLplus 0.34.0 (Sep 13, 2013)

  • OGLplus changes:
  • The DSATextureEXT class - a direct-state-access replacement for Texture was
  • added and can be used where the EXT_direct_state_access extension is
  • available.
  • Support for anisotropic filtering was added to Texture and DSATextureEXT.
  • The PointAndVector, TwistedTorus and the Cage parametric shape vertex
  • attribute builders were added.
  • The Buffer::Target::Query value is now initialized from core GL instead of
  • the AMD extension.
  • The AutoBind template was reimplemented and the Array template
  • was specialized for AutoBind.
  • Some syntax-sugar operators were added to the Capability and Functionality
  • enumerations for a more convenient enabling/disabling of GL capabilities.
  • The text rendering utilities were updated and a simple SW 2D text rendering
  • utility was added.
  • The ValueInRightAngles and ValueInFullCircles getter functions were added
  • to the Angle template class.
  • Updates to examples:
  • Several new examples were added and some of the existing examples were updated
  • to show the new OGLplus features.
  • Several old examples were removed.
  • The ARB_debug_output in the GLX example 'harness' was updated to remove
  • duplicate messages.
  • Several minor tweaks and optimizations were made to the existing examples.
  • Updates to the build system:
  • The --generator option that allows to specify the cmake generator was added
  • to the configure scripts.
  • The --with-msvc option was added to the configure.bat script.
  • The --jobs option was added to the configure scripts.
  • The automatic selection of the GL initialization library was improved.
  • GL version detection was improved, GL 4.4 is now supported by the build system.
  • GL extension detection was improved.
  • Several other minor bugs were fixed.
  • The glcorearb.h and glext.h headers were added to the third_party includes
  • and are used as fallback if no other GL API library is available.
  • A problem in OpenAL detection/configuration was fixed.
  • The requirements/dependencies for examples were updated.
  • Detection of the UNICODE_LITERALS C++11 feature was added.

New in OGLplus 0.33.0 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • OGLplus changes:
  • The MaxLevel getter and setter functions were added to Texture.
  • A new CamMatrix::LookingAt constructor function was added.
  • Minor changes were made to the shapes::ObjMesh loader.
  • The shapes::Cube generator was reimplemented.
  • An EGL harness for off-screen screenshot and video rendering was added.
  • The SepStrRange helper class was moved to OGLplus and re-used in both OALplus and EGLplus.
  • The normal map image generator was changed - the height value is now inverted.
  • Range-based traversal of GL extensions was added to Context.
  • An example showing extension string traversal was added.
  • An example printing the various GL implementation limits was added.
  • Two new examples showing shell-based parallax mapping were added.
  • The glcorearb.h header was added to the third_party includes for convenience.
  • OALplus changes:
  • String queries were added to Context.
  • Const qualifiers were removed from Source::Gain and Source::MaxDistance setter functions.
  • Static specifier was added to Context::Extensions.
  • Re-used the Angle template from OGLplus.
  • Minor problem in the Array template was fixed.
  • Support for construction with attributes was added to CurrentContext.
  • Two new examples were added and the existing ones were updated.
  • EGLplus changes:
  • Three new getter functions were added to Config.
  • Changes in the build system and configuration script
  • The GL context intialization was re-implemented.
  • The --use-gl-window-lib option was renamed to --use-gl-init-lib.
  • Minor updates and typo fixes were made to the doxygen documentation.

New in OGLplus 0.32.0 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • Merged the EGLplus library into the main development branch
  • EGLplus is a wrapper around EGL similar to what OGLplus is to OpenGL.
  • Four new examples showing the usage of EGL were added.
  • Updates to the build system
  • The X11/GLX detection was refactored.
  • Options for forcing GL header and context initialization library were added to the configure.sh bash script.
  • Support for building some parts of OALplus and EGLplus into a library was added.
  • The `--max-gl-version' option that allows to limit the maximum GL version to be used was added to the configure.py script.
  • The friend functions of Angle were re-implemented.
  • The Pointer* and Setup* functions of VertexAttrib were reimplemented
  • NOTE: this is an interface breaking change.
  • The former Pointer function was split into Pointer/IPointer/LPointer.
  • The former Format function was split into Format/IFormat/LFormat.
  • The Setup functions were reimplemented.
  • The examples were updated to use the templated VertexAttrib::Setup.
  • This changes should minimize the link failures due to unresolved references to glVertexAttribLPointer.
  • Reimplemented Quick/HardwiredProgram.
  • NOTE: this is an interface breaking change.
  • The separable attribute is now true_type or false_type instead of bool.
  • This change allows to use non-separable Quick/Hardwired programs with lower versions of GL than 4.1.
  • Update of Bitfield
  • Updated OGLplus Bitfield so that it can be used with enumerations from EGLplus and OALplus.
  • Other minor changes and updates.

New in OGLplus 0.31.0 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Merged the OALplus library into the main development branch
  • OALplus is a wrapper aroung OpenAL similar to what OGLplus is to OpenGL.
  • Documentation updates and fixups.
  • A new tutorial for OALplus was added.
  • Some problems in the existing tutorials were fixed.
  • The readme file was updated.
  • Updates in the build system
  • A problem with the dependencies for GLFW-based test fixture was fixed.
  • A Qt4/OpenGL-based example harness was added.
  • A bug in parsing of LDFLAGS in the configure.py was fixed.
  • The require_all_dependencies cmake function was updated to include the _USE_FILE if it is available for a dependency.
  • A bug in the Query::Execution class was fixed.
  • Several other minor bugs were fixed.
  • Compatilitity with MacOS X and other systems using older versions of OpenGL was improved.
  • New utility scripts were added.
  • Several new examples were added.

New in OGLplus 0.30.0 (May 8, 2013)

  • An .obj file loader was added.
  • 2 new examples showing the usage of the .obj loader were added.
  • Added several new simple .obj models used by the examples.
  • The build system was updated:
  • Updated example dependencies/requirements.
  • Added instructions for building .obj models.
  • Updated and fixed some problems in documentation building.
  • Fixed a problem with building of the test fixtures.
  • Problem with scoped enums emulation in uniform_typecheck.hpp was fixed.
  • A wrapper for glTextureView was added to Texture.
  • A wrapper for glGetShaderPrecisionFormat was added to Shader.
  • The Size function was added to Buffer and Bound.
  • A problem with generating of the bound/*.hpp was fixed.

New in OGLplus 0.29.0 (Apr 17, 2013)

  • The build system was updated and several problems were fixed:
  • A check if a standard threads implementation is available was added.
  • The management of example and test case dependencies and requirements was reimplemented.
  • Available GL version detection was added and the detection of GL extensions was updated.
  • A problem with standalone examples depending on libPNG was fixed, they are now built only if libPNG is available.
  • Some problems in the configure.py script were fixed and new features were added.
  • The test suite for oglplus was moved to test/oglplus/.
  • A test case checking if all configured examples build properly was added.
  • The AtomicCounterBindingPoint and ShaderStorageBufferBindingPoint types were added.
  • The BindBaseAtomicCounter and BindBaseShaderStorage functions were added to Buffer.
  • The preprocessor symbols related to compiler capabilities were moved into a separate header file.
  • Header dependencies were updated in several files.
  • Several new examples showing the usage with GL 3.0 and GLSL 1.2 (working with Mesa 3D 9.0) were added.
  • Some of the existing examples were updated.

New in OGLplus 0.28.0 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • The VertexAttribute setup functions were reimplemented.
  • The Vector and Matrix template classes were reimplemented from scratch.
  • The bitmap glyph text rendering utility was refactored.
  • A new text rendering utility based on Sean Barrett's truetype font rasterization library was added.
  • A type erasure for text rendering utilities was added.
  • Primitive restarting in shape drawing functions was updated.
  • The enumeration classes were reimplemented.
  • The Grid shape builder was added.
  • The TrySet function was added to OptionalUniform.
  • The GLSLSource class was updated.
  • The build system was updated.
  • A testing framework and first test cases were added.
  • Several new examples (including the first advanced) were added.
  • Some of the existing examples were updated or optimized.
  • Minor changes were made to the readme file and to the documentation.

New in OGLplus 0.27.0 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • Bug in construction of perspective matrices was fixed.
  • Several bugs in the examples and example harnesses were fixed.
  • Added the Query::Activator class
  • The front() and back() functions were added to Array
  • Support for instanced rendering was added to the shape generators/loaders.

New in OGLplus 0.26.0 (Feb 14, 2013)

  • The example "harnesses" were reimplemented, the GL context creation libraries were separated from the GL API libraries and various combinations of GLX/GLUT/GLFW/SDL/wxGL with gl3.h/glcorearb.h/GLEW/GL3W are now supported.
  • Some of the other example "harnesses" now support making screenshots.
  • The build system was updated and some problems were fixed.
  • Support for multi-threaded rendering was added to the GLX "harness".
  • Several new examples were added including one showing multi-threaded rendering.
  • The MSVC projects/solutions were updated.
  • The Screen shape builder was added.
  • The Image template was reimplemented to the images::Image class. The related image loading/generating classes were updated.
  • Many complex functions were updated to support compilation into a library.
  • The Blender's .blend file parser was optimized.

New in OGLplus 0.25.0 (Jan 26, 2013)

  • The implementation of Uniforms has been refactored and updated.
  • Support for Uniform typechecking was added.
  • Support for defining Uniforms from GLSL data types was added.
  • Mapping of GLSL data types to C++ types was added.
  • The ShaderVariableError exception was added.
  • Some problems in the shape builders were fixed.
  • Functions for generating bi-normal vectors for shape vertices was added to some of the existing shape builders.
  • Fixed a bug related to primitive restarting in examples.
  • Fixed a minor problem with Matrix.
  • The ShapeWrapperWithAdjacency helper class was added.
  • The PatchParameter enumeration and a wrapper for the glPatchParameteri function was added.
  • Several new examples were added.

New in OGLplus 0.24.0 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Several problems in the BlenderMesh shape loader were fixed.
  • A new example showing the usage of shapes::BlenderMesh was added.
  • The Program interface traversal functions were updated.
  • A function for getting information (name, data type, program interface index, etc.) about an uniform was added.
  • The SLDataType enumeration was updated.
  • Documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.23.0 (Dec 29, 2012)

  • The List function and ListOf template class that can be used as a replacement for initializer lists were added.
  • The OGLPLUS_STD_VECTOR_INIT macro was replaced with List and ListOf in the examples.
  • Some of the examples were backported to MSVC10 using ListOf and List.
  • Some optimizations were made in the error handling subsystem.
  • The GLUT/GLEW example 'harness' was updated.
  • Problems in the texture image loading utilities used by the examples were fixed.
  • The BlenderMesh 'shape loader' for loading of meshes from Blender's .blend files was added.
  • Other minor changes and bugfixes were made.
  • A couple of new examples were added.

New in OGLplus 0.22.0 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • The Optional template class allowing optionally initialized objects like textures, samplers, framebuffres, shaders, programs, etc. was added.
  • Some problems in the ARB_debug_output wrapper were fixed.
  • Several new examples were added.
  • Several new textures were added.
  • The gradient image generator was added.
  • Some problems in the PNG file loaded were fixed.
  • The build system was updated to use a fallback texture if a texture cannot be rendered from source and a pre-built texture is not available.
  • Some features of shape builders and several examples were backported to MSVC
  • Several other minor bugs and problems were fixed

New in OGLplus 0.21.0 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • A utility for parsing Blender's .blend files was added.
  • The OptionalUnifom class and its variants were added.
  • The common base code for standalone examples was updated.
  • A tool for bitmap-glyph-based text rendering was added.
  • A tool for Pango/Cairo-based text rendering was added.
  • Several problems in the build system were fixed.
  • The SubroutineUniforms class was updated, a Preset
  • type and Load, Save and Apply functions were added.
  • Problems with calling conventions on MinGW were fixed.
  • Problems with building on 64-bit systems were fixed.
  • Multiple examples showing the new features were added.

New in OGLplus 0.20.0 (Sep 19, 2012)

  • The subscript operator was added to Uniform which allows to set the individual elements of uniform array variables separately.
  • The GetLocation, GetCommonLocation, QueryLocation and QueryCommonLocation member functions were added to VertexAttribute.
  • Minor changes in Subroutine uniforms were made.
  • Added the IncompleteFramebuffer exception and the Framebuffer::Complete function.
  • Destructors that could potentially throw were rewritten.
  • Support for loading GLSLSource from a file was added.
  • A wxWidgets/wxGL-based "harness" for the examples was added.
  • Fixed a bug in the program resource traversal functions and classes
  • Fixed a problem with GL extension availability detection
  • Updated the enumerations in the NV_path_rendering extension
  • Some problems in the build system were fixed.
  • Automatic index type detection was added to some overloads of Context::DrawElements.
  • Several new examples were added.
  • The documentation and the README file was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.19.0 (Sep 4, 2012)

  • Some parts of OGLplus can now optionally be built into a library and linked to the applications based on the value of the
  • OGLPLUS_LINK_LIBRARY preprocessor switch.
  • The implementation of the EnumValueName function was refactored.
  • The EnumValueRange function was added.
  • Wrappers for GL 4.3 program interface, compute shader dispatching, and debug output functionality were added.
  • Support for GL/glcorearb.h header was added to the build system.
  • The configuration script for the build system was updated.
  • The smart enumerations header was moved to the oglplus/opt dir.
  • Wrappers for BufferClearData and BufferClearSubData were added.
  • Wrappers for texture functions were added.
  • Operator

New in OGLplus 0.18.0 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Added the OneOf template allowing to pass values of several different types with a common representation as parameter to certain functions.
  • Wrapper for glDrawBuffers was added to Context
  • The FramebufferColorAttachment enumeration was added.
  • The implementation of CameraMatrix::LookingAt was updated.
  • A bug in Buffer::SubData has been fixed.
  • Several other minor changes were made and bugs fixed.
  • The build system has been updated.
  • New examples were added.

New in OGLplus 0.17.0 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • Improved support for MSVC (2010 and 11)
  • Backporting to clang (tested with version 3.0).
  • Updated the build system to detect required C++11 features
  • and external dependencies and building only examples with all prerequisites.
  • Updated the configuration script.
  • Reimplementation of uniform variables. Lazily-initialized uniforms were added and the wrappers for GL setter functions were rewritten from scratch.
  • The Squares image generator was added.
  • Checking of pointers to GL functions was added.
  • Concatenation of StrLit objects was optimized.
  • Multiple bugs were fixed and several other optimizations were made.
  • Several examples were updated and/or optimized.
  • The documentation has been updated and a new tutorial was added.

New in OGLplus 0.16.0 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • Backporting to MSVC 2010.
  • Several bugs were fixed.
  • Optimizations were made to the Matrix template

New in OGLplus 0.15.0 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • The OGLPLUS_LOW_PROFILE preprocessor option was added for disabling non-essential features of OGLplus resulting in smaller executable sized, better compilation and execution times.
  • The GLSLSource wrapper/loader for source code strings was added.
  • The StrLit wrapper for c-string literals was added.
  • Some optimizations were made on Angle, Vector, Object,
  • Array, and some other classes.
  • The Specialized modifier template was added.
  • Major refactoring of internal implementation of Objects
  • Textures, Buffers, Shaders, Programs, etc.) and related classes was made.
  • Added support for Subroutine uniforms.
  • The list of Buffer's indexed target values was updated.
  • The Icosahedron shape builder was added.
  • Support for vectors and matrices from the GLM library was added.
  • The Submatrix*(...) functions for exatration of a submatrix were added to Matrix.
  • The GLUT/GLEW example harness was updated to print framerates and polygon count statistics to the standard output.
  • Several bugs in the cmake build system and the related scripts were fixed.
  • The oglplus/bound/*.hpp headers were added to the repository and are not build by the build system anymore (this removed dependencies on doxygen and xsltproc).
  • The OGLPLUS_PP_DEFS symbol was added to the MSVC 11 solution.
  • Several new projects were added to the MSVC 11 solution.
  • Several examples showing the new features were added and some of the previously existing examples were optimized.
  • The documentation content and stylesheets were updated.

New in OGLplus 0.14.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • A wrapper for the AMD_performance_monitor extension was added.
  • The build system was updated and some bugs were fixed.
  • The configure.bat script for windows was added.
  • OGLplus now works with MinGW.
  • New examples were added.
  • The documentation was updated.

New in OGLplus 0.13.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • Detection of availability of several C++11 features was added
  • to the cmake-based build system.
  • Most parts of OGLplus now work with MSVC 11. Several minor interface
  • changes and updates were made in the process.
  • A MSVC solution/project files were added for building of examples.
  • The HardwiredTupleProgram template was added.
  • A new 'RevolveY' shape builder was added.
  • The "smart enum" classes which make the usage of strongly-typed enums
  • more convenient were added.
  • New examples were added and some of the existing were updated to show
  • the new features.

New in OGLplus 0.12.1 (May 10, 2012)

  • Several problems and omissions in the NV_path_rendering extension
  • wrapper were fixed
  • The ARB_compatibility wrapper was updated
  • A wrapper for a subset of EXT_direct_state_access was added
  • A new example showing dynamic text rendering using NV_path_rendering
  • was added

New in OGLplus 0.12.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • Wrappers for several GL extensions (including ARB_compatibility,
  • ARB_debug_output, NV_path_rendering, ATI_meminfo) were added some of them still work-in-progress).
  • The build system was updated and some problems were fixed.
  • The error checking/reporting subsystem was updated and now can be partially compiled away if necessary.
  • New camera matrix constructors were added and some of the existing were renamed.
  • The Object helper template was partially refactored.
  • Several new examples were added.

New in OGLplus 0.11.2 (May 10, 2012)

  • Update of the build system

New in OGLplus 0.11.1 (May 10, 2012)

  • CMake configuration/build system was added
  • The old build system was removed
  • Headers and sources were updated for better compatibility with GLEW
  • Documentation was updated and a readme file was added
  • Added several new textures

New in OGLplus 0.11.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • Several typedefs that were members of Object(s) were moved to the
  • oglplus namespace and renamed for better interface consistency
  • Wrappers for many different GL-context value queries were added
  • Wrappers for viewport-array-related operations were added
  • Wrappers for Renderbuffer and Sync-related queries were added
  • Wrappers for TexStorage and BindImageTexture were added to Texture
  • and a typo in it's interface was fixed
  • Several new enumerations were added including access specifier, image
  • unit format and others
  • Some of the texture image generators were updated, including the
  • Newton fractal and Cloud
  • Several new examples were added and some of the existing were optimized
  • Few minor bugs were fixed and the documentation was updated

New in OGLplus 0.10.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • Enumerations and functions related to querying of implementation-dependent
  • limits were added
  • A new special shape builder that can be used for space division
  • and implicit surface polygonization was added
  • Edge drawing instructions were added to the Plane and WickerTorus
  • shape builders were added
  • The CosineWave function was added
  • The function for inverting of FaceOrientation was added
  • A bug in the interface of Texture was fixed
  • Several bugs in the examples were fixed
  • OpenGL hint-related functions and enums were added
  • Pixel storage and transfer-related functions and enums were added
  • Several new examples were added and the documentation was updated

New in OGLplus 0.9.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • The AutoBind class template was added
  • The HardwiredProgram template was added
  • New constructors to the QuickProgram class were added
  • Wrappers for Flush and Finish functions were added
  • The former Uniform and ProgramUniform classes were turned
  • to class templates
  • The way uniform matrices are set was changes
  • The VertexAttrib and the VertexAttribArray classes were updated
  • The examples were updated accordingly and two new were added
  • The Matrix4f and Matrix4d typedefs were renamed to Mat4f and Mat4d
  • New matrix typedefs Mat[234]x[234][fd] and Mat[234][fd] were added
  • Several new texture images were added
  • The shape builders were updated
  • Documentation was updated

New in OGLplus 0.8.0 (May 10, 2012)

  • New constructors were added to the shader classes allowing
  • to specify the source and compile the shader during construction
  • The QuickProgram class, which allows to specify shaders and link
  • the program during construction was added
  • The current OpenGL context function wrappers were reorganized
  • to several classes
  • Wrappers for draw commands were added
  • The ProvokeMode enumeration was added
  • Wrappers for VertexAttribDivisor and PrimitiveRestartIndex were added
  • Several new compile-time configuration options were added
  • Update of the error handling, support for customized handling of
  • errors was added
  • Several new examples were added some problems in the existing examples were fixed
  • Two new textures were added
  • A new tutorial was written
  • Other documentation updates and fixes
  • A new shape builder was added (the WickerTorus)
  • The Cube and Plane shape builders were updated
  • The ST texture coordinates were switched in the Torus shape builder
  • A new image filter, which allows to transform the image pixel components
  • by a matrix was added