Re: Status on SetPixelFormat patch from May 2010

[Chris Robinson]

On Friday, December 30, 2011 1:41:12 PM Jeff Cook wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I am curious about the patch on
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18490 and why it's not in
> vanilla. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18490#c9 seems to be a
> pretty cogent explanation of the issue and the patch appears
> reasonable enough.

Because it's not correct. OpenGL's SetPixelFormat on the desktop window 
(GetDC(0)) is supposed to fail, or at least did when I made tests for it a few 
years ago. I think a better fix would be for wined3d to use a dummy surface, 
or a renderless context (available with OpenGL 3.0), if it's asked to use the 
desktop window.