Document Revision History

This table describes the changes to OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X.

Date	Notes
2008-06-09	Updated the Cocoa OpenGL tutorial and made numerous other minor changes.
	Fixed compilation errors in Listing 5-1.
	Added “Getting Decompressed Raw Pixel Data from a Source Image.”
	Updated links to OpenGL extensions.
	Made several minor edits.
2007-12-04	Corrected minor typographical and technical errors.
	Added “Ensuring that Back Buffer Contents Remain the Same.”
	Revised “Attributes that are not Recommended.”
	Corrected a typographical error in Listing 3-1.
2007-08-07	Fixed several technical issues.
2007-05-29	Fixed a broken link.
2007-05-17	Fixed a few technical inaccuracies in the code listings.
	Changed attribs to attributes in Listing 7-2.
	Fixed drawRect method implementation in “Drawing to a Window or View.”
2006-12-20	Fixed minor errors.
	Added information concerning the Apple client storage extension. Fixed a typographical error.
2006-11-07	Added information about performance issues and processor queries.
	See “Vertex and Fragment Processing.”
2006-10-03	Added a section on checking for GPU processing.
	Added “Vertex and Fragment Processing.”
	Fixed a number of minor typos in the code and in the text.
2006-09-05	Fixed minor technical problems.
2006-07-24	Made minor technical and typograhical changes throughout.
	Added information to “Surface Drawing Order.”
	Changed `glCopyTexSubImage` to `glCopyTexSubImage2D` in “Downloading Texture Data.”
	Made minor improvements to Listing 9-6.
	Removed information about 1-D textures.
2006-06-28	Made several minor technical corrections.
	Redirected links to the OpenGL specification for the framebuffer object extension so that they point to the SGI Open Source website, which hosts the most up-to-date version of this specification.
	Removed the logic operation blending entry from Table A-6 because this functionality is not available in OpenGL 2.0.
2006-05-23	First version.
	This document replaces Macintosh OpenGL Programming Guide and AGL Programming Guide.
	This document incorporates information from the following Technical Notes:
	TN2007 “The CGDirectDisplay API”
	TN2014 “Insights on OpenGL”
	TN2080 “Understanding and Detecting OpenGL Functionality”
	TN2093 “OpenGL Performance Optimization: The Basics”
	This document incorporates information from the following Technical Q&As:
	Technical Q&A OGL01 “aglChoosePixelFormat, The Inside Scoop”
	Technical Q&A OGL02 “Correct Setup of an AGLDrawable”
	Technical Q&A QA1158 “glFlush() vs. glFinish()”
	Technical Q&A QA1167 “Using Interface Builder's NSOpenGLView or Custom View objects for an OpenGL application”
	Technical Q&A QA1188 “GetProcAdress and OpenGL Entry Points”
	Technical Q&A QA1209 “Updating OpenGL Contexts”
	Technical Q&A QA1248 “Context Sharing Tips”
	Technical Q&A QA1268 “Sharpening Full Scene Anti-Aliasing Details”
	Technical Q&A QA1269 “Mac OS X OpenGL Interfaces”
	Technical Q&A QA1325 “Creating an OpenGL texture from an NSView”

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