Updated with information on supporting high-resolution displays.

Updated with information on supporting high-resolution displays.

Added new context options.

Fixed a few small errors in the texture chapter.

Updated the recommendations on when to use each texture uploading and downloading technique.

Updated the code for creating a texture from a view’s contents to use newer, better supported techniques.

Corrected texture creation code snippets.

Minor updates and clarifications.

Substantial revisions to describe behaviors for OpenGL on OS X v10.5 and OS X v10.6. Removed information on obsolete and deprecated behaviors.

Corrected errors in code listings. Pixel format attribute lists should be terminated with 0, not NULL. One call to glTexImage2D had an incorrect number of parameters.

Updated the Cocoa OpenGL tutorial and made numerous other minor changes.

Fixed compilation errors in Listing 8-1.

Added Getting Decompressed Raw Pixel Data from a Source Image.

Updated links to OpenGL extensions.

Made several minor edits.

Corrected minor typographical and technical errors.

Added Ensuring That Back Buffer Contents Remain the Same.

Revised Deprecated Attributes.

Fixed several technical issues.

Fixed a broken link.

Fixed a few technical inaccuracies in the code listings.

Changed attribs to attributes in Listing 6-2.

Fixed drawRect method implementation in Drawing to a Window or View.

Fixed minor errors.

Added information concerning the Apple client storage extension. Fixed a typographical error.

Added information about performance issues and processor queries.

See Determining Whether Vertex and Fragment Processing Happens on the GPU.

Added a section on checking for GPU processing.

Added Determining Whether Vertex and Fragment Processing Happens on the GPU.

Fixed a number of minor typos in the code and in the text.

Fixed minor technical problems.

Made minor technical and typograhical changes throughout.

Added information to Surface Drawing Order Specifies the Position of the OpenGL Surface Relative to the Window.

Changed glCopyTexSubImage to glCopyTexSubImage2D in Downloading Texture Data.

Made minor improvements to Listing 11-6.

Removed information about 1-D textures.

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.

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 “OS X OpenGL Interfaces”

Technical Q&A QA1325 “Creating an OpenGL texture from an NSView”