What This Guide Contains

This guide consists of four chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Using OpenGL in a Windows Environment" discusses the main points to consider when writing an OpenGL program that runs under Windows and illustrates those points using a small example program.

• Chapter 2, "New Features in OpenGL 1.1" provides information about new features not yet discussed in the OpenGL Programming Guide. Using these features can significantly improve your program's performance. Some of the features are also the basis for a few of the extensions discussed in Chapter 3.

• Chapter 3, "Extensions for OpenGL on Windows" explains how to use several new extensions provided exclusively for performance enhancements on Windows.

• Chapter 4, "Tuning Your OpenGL Application" first provides some general information on enhancing OpenGL performance, then explains how to tune OpenGL applications that run under Windows.

• Appendix A, "Code Example for Index Texture Extension" provides an example illustrating the use of the index texture extension.