2 hours ago,figuerres wrote

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really this  question is one that the owners / managers of "OpenGL" should answer. Microsoft does not own or manage this.  if the OGL group provide windows 8 packages then fine. if not ask them.

But someone did!They disbelieved the boyas they did with me when I posted the same question in their forums years ago

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=303059

Again, only wondering. Sure I'll go DirectX on Windows but sometimes you get a work that need be crossplatform (I'm in academic side) and deal with the boilerplate ogl context creation is so boring (some (non-sense in my opinion) projects forbidden the use of 3rd party API's like SDL)

I mean, it is funny, on Microsoft forums people say to go and ask in OpenGL  forums, in there people direct you to ask back on Microsoft forum

Who is responsible of wgl extensions? We will have an EGL implementation in future or some wgl extension to create an opengl context from a wrt::Window? (I hope the last, no more boilerplate fake window and contexts to discover capabilities would be amazing)

12 minutes ago,cbae wroteWhat do you right-click on?

On Metro Apps, on plain zones. For exemple, Build Metro App, the News feed, the sodoku etc. IE10 in metro mode brings both botton (URL, reload etc) and upper (tabs) menus.

Desktop/Ribbon apps still have the traditional context menu.

* ("App's Menu": the applications own menu. I'll edit there for clarify )

Now its complete:

• click and drag from left-side of screen switchs tasks
• right-button click brings the App's menu (equivalent from swipe from botton on touch)
• Hover mouse on lower left corner brings up "Start menu" (equivalent from swipe from right on touch)

 P.S.: Using a 1080p screen rez.

53 minutes ago,cbae wrote

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 You have to use the scroll bar at the bottom.

The mouse wheel is working for scroll from left to right (and vice-versa).

Stop mouse at left-side and "swipe" (actually click and drag) works for task switching perfectly.

What is not working (and I'm still figuring how do to it) is the "swipe" from the right-side to bring the "start" menu

Dual boot Win8/Win7

Win8 Partition with 40GB, 25GB total occupied, 64bit version

ASUS P5NSli, Intel Core2Duo 6300, 4GB RAM, GeForce 9600GT

Incredible fast task switching, Metro get the mouse wheel for rolling (not much intuitive), can't bring the right-side menu with mouse, IE10 menus with right-button mouse click (I think I still need to discover how make mouse emulate finger gestures )

Clean install, dual boot with Windows 7.

Figuring out now how to do C++ stuff with Visual Studio 11

here an except of the code (how to register a function to call)

template <typename TEvent, typename TListener >
void _registerListener (const TListener& function) {
static_assert(!std::is_array<TEvent>::value, "You cannot register an array as an event type");
static_assert(std::is_convertible<TListener,std::function<void(TEvent&)>>::value, "Unvalid callback for this event type");
_listeners.insert(std::make_pair(&typeid(std::decay<TEvent>::type), [=](void* ev) { function(*static_cast<TEvent*>(ev)); }));
}

is_convertible and decay seens what you are looking for deal with functors, function and lambdas. There are other interesting stuff on the blog. (I think I see an example with std::bind for additional "magic"call somewhere, I'll try re-digg it)

• Put a debug point on somewhere (line 18 for example)
• Start debug session
• Step Over until the unique_ptr be created, use the Locals to expand and inspect the address hold by it ( [ptr] )
• Double click on the address and copy it (Ctrl-C)
• Go to Debug > Windows > Memory > Memory 1 Detach it to floating mode and increase the size (no dock it)
• On the memory window Go to the Address and paste (Ctrl-V)
• Use right button on body and change the formating to 32-bit Floating point
• Change the Columns to 4
• The address must be filled with Í (user committed writable) and some bytes before teh address must have í (user committed fill)*
• Go to Debug > Windows > Registers (Alt+5), detach it too
• Right click and choose SS2, resize the window

Now while you Step over the code you can see the SSE registers and the Memory changing

*(see on Old new thing about the symbols the compiler use to mark the space adress)

Last topic talk on STL was the shared_ptr, its a very powerfull tool that one can use for begin using aligned memory, essential for a good use of multimedia instructions. Another usefull guy is unique_ptr. The later differ from the former in implementation of strict ownership, ie ony one unique_ptr object can own the pointer, it let you use move semantics but hide the copy. Another nice of unique_ptr is it have a specialization for array ( Type[] ) what make the life even easer.

Lets go to a simple code: wrap a aligned memory of 16 floats and fill it with non-aligned array of 4 floats.

#include <intrin.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <memory>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    __m128 a;// forward declaration

    const char x = 'a'; //force an odd offset

    float data[] = {1.f, 2.f, 3.f, 4.f};

    //alloc and wrap data for 16 floats pointer aligned in 16byte
    auto alignedBuffer = unique_ptr<float[], decltype(&::_aligned_free) >((float *)::_aligned_malloc(sizeof(float)*16, 16), ::_aligned_free);

    //load unaligned (the little 'u' after 'load'
    a = _mm_loadu_ps(data);

    //store aligned data, i
    //loop unroll
    //a=a
    //Big note here: we dealing with float[]
    //caution if you use pointer aritmetic ($obj.get())

    _mm_store_ps(&alignedBuffer[0], a);

    a = _mm_add_ps(a, a);

    _mm_store_ps(&alignedBuffer[4], a);

    a = _mm_add_ps(a, a);

    _mm_store_ps(&alignedBuffer[8], a);

    a = _mm_add_ps(a, a);

    _mm_store_ps(&alignedBuffer[12], a);


    for_each(&alignedBuffer[0], &alignedBuffer[16], [](float f)
        {
            cout << f << " ";
        }
    );

    return 0;
}

Unique and shared _ptr are secure to use inside a vector and other STL classes,  You can  make, for example, a vector of chinks of aligned data to be processed by your algorithm.

I'll back to this thread latter to refine it or add more examples. Please if you like and wish to contribute fell free to add your 2¢

I'm having no problems with it at all, even on previous versions of FF and SL, only the 1st time I run in fullscreen I have to add an exception (by popup warning) to let FF launch SL in fullscreen for Ch9 site (url)

Some camera drivers are bugged and crash cause any access to the cam (even if only to inspect the cam name and supported resolutions) trigger the cam app to launch.

I see lots of this behavior cause on my old work I have to deal with video conferencing (by apps and browser apps) and every cam (and even on every model inside the same brand) have corner cases

Try see if the cam have updated drivers, but not much to do unless write a report for SL forum and cam tech forum (if have)

The old advertises are gone, but now the attacker is using a new tactic: posting a dictionary phrases like "I like your explanation, see this code on my link", "good appointment, pls see this link" and the links are our famous advertises again.

I'll continue to monitor the videos and mark spam the bots comments