added Special Features section

diff --git a/docs/README.BEOS b/docs/README.BEOS
index 4bcb287970594d2acb103aef391325561f2e9e98..749390d43ac5c48268bd151413faab81563a0183 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/README.BEOS
+++ b/docs/README.BEOS
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ In any case, you'll have to download and compile GLUT for BeOS and
 put libglut.so in the Mesa-3.x/lib/ directory before you can compile
 the demos/, samples/ and book/ programs.
 
-GLUT for BeOS can be found at:  ??? fill-in ???
+GLUT for BeOS can be found at
+http://home.beoscentral.com/jehamby/Glut-3.5-x86.zip
 
 This is a special version of GLUT adapted for the BeOS.  I don't
 believe Mark Kilgard's normal GLUT distribution includes BeOS
@@ -60,6 +61,18 @@ support.
 
 
 
+Special Features
+
+Mesa's implementation of the BGLView class has an extra member
+function:  CopySubBufferMESA().  It basically works like SwapBuffers()
+but it only copies a sub region from the back buffer to the front
+buffer.  This is a useful optimization for some applications.
+If you use this method in your code be sure that you check at runtime
+that you're actually using Mesa (with glGetString) so you don't
+cause a fatal error when running with Be's OpenGL.
+
+
+
 Old BeOS Driver
 
 Mesa 2.6 had an earlier BeOS driver.  It was based on Mesa's Off-screen
@@ -76,4 +89,4 @@ work with the new Mesa 3.1 BGLView implementation.
 
 
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-$Id: README.BEOS,v 1.3 1999/02/06 06:32:20 brianp Exp $
+$Id: README.BEOS,v 1.4 1999/02/11 03:52:24 brianp Exp $