Custom windows and NSWindowBackingLocationVideoMemory

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
I have a custom shaped window that refuses to use VRAM as its backing buffer. It's a relatively small borderless window with a semi transparent rounded rect shape. Are there certain things that will prevent a window from using VRAM on supported hardware? Other stock windows do this just

Re: Custom windows and NSWindowBackingLocationVideoMemory

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
I've found the reason for it is that the window is not opaque (setOpaque:NO). So are all non-opaque windows ineligible for VRAM backing? I don't see any documentation on window attribute requirements for it, only GPU requirements. On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote: