Disabling engine startup log or modifying enabled extensions /
workarounds from the application side was one of the common pain
points and this should *finally* solve the problem. This Configuration
is now inherited by the usual Platform::*Application::GLConfiguration /
Platform::Windowless*Application::Configuration classes people are used
to, so for the end user it's just as if these classes got a bunch new
options.
Having this, I also extended the ContextGLTest to verify that the
Configuration and command-line options do what's expected because that
hadn't automated tests until now. The test is mostly a copy of what I
did for Vulkan already, nothing special. Additionally all
Platform*ApplicationTest executables gained a new --quiet option to
verify that the GL::Context::Configuration subset gets correctly passed
from the Application code, because that's something we can't really
verify in an automated way.
Deprecated for 2018.04, it's been almost a year since. Whoever is using
Magnum regularly updated already, and who not can always upgrade
gradually (2018.02, 2018.04, 2018.10, 2019.01 etc.).
I deprecated that because I wanted to be sure that I properly update all
my code to actually propagate the options. But now I see that this is
actually a valid case -- the engine being in a thread or in some other
way hidden from the outside *shouldn't* need access to argc/argv.
Also updated the docs to say it's completely harmless to propagate the
args.
The parameterless Platform::Context::Context() constructor and
Platform::Context::tryCreate() function are deprecated in favor
functions that take argc/argv pair. The Context class now accepts
arguments starting with --magnum-* prefix. Currently there are none
except for the implicit --magnum-help, but that will change with the
following commits.
In some cases the GL context creation might success without error, but
the created version is one that we don't want (e.g. software GDI
rasterizer on Windows). Previously the Context class constructor just
exited the application and it was impossible to react on that from the
application side (for example reducing some context feature
requirements).
Now there is Platform::Context::tryCreate(), which returns either
created instance or `nullptr` if the instance creation failed with some
error. That is now used in all Platform::*Application implementations.
The function pointer loading is now moved to Application classes to make
it possible to decide about platform-specific API at usage time, not at
library compilation time.
Currently it's not possible to create the Magnum context any other way
than through Application classes, will solve that in next commits.