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// Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
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// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
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// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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include::meta/VK_KHR_surface.txt[]
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*Last Modified Date*::
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2016-08-25
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*IP Status*::
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No known IP claims.
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*Contributors*::
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- Patrick Doane, Blizzard
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- Ian Elliott, LunarG
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- Jesse Hall, Google
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- James Jones, NVIDIA
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- David Mao, AMD
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- Norbert Nopper, Freescale
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- Alon Or-bach, Samsung
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- Daniel Rakos, AMD
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- Graham Sellers, AMD
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- Jeff Vigil, Qualcomm
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- Chia-I Wu, LunarG
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- Jason Ekstrand, Intel
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The +VK_KHR_surface+ extension is an instance extension.
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It introduces slink:VkSurfaceKHR objects, which abstract native platform
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surface or window objects for use with Vulkan.
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It also provides a way to determine whether a queue family in a physical
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device supports presenting to particular surface.
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Separate extensions for each each platform provide the mechanisms for
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creating slink:VkSurfaceKHR objects, but once created they may be used in
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this and other platform-independent extensions, in particular the
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+VK_KHR_swapchain+ extension.
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=== New Object Types
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* slink:VkSurfaceKHR
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=== New Enum Constants
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* Extending elink:VkResult:
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** ename:VK_ERROR_SURFACE_LOST_KHR
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** ename:VK_ERROR_NATIVE_WINDOW_IN_USE_KHR
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=== New Enums
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* elink:VkSurfaceTransformFlagBitsKHR
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* elink:VkPresentModeKHR
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* elink:VkColorSpaceKHR
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* elink:VkCompositeAlphaFlagBitsKHR
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=== New Structures
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* slink:VkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR
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* slink:VkSurfaceFormatKHR
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=== New Functions
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* flink:vkDestroySurfaceKHR
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* flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR
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* flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR
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* flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR
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* flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModesKHR
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=== Examples
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[NOTE]
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.Note
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====
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The example code for the +VK_KHR_surface+ and +VK_KHR_swapchain+ extensions
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was removed from the appendix after revision 1.0.29.
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This WSI example code was ported to the cube demo that is shipped with the
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official Khronos SDK, and is being kept up-to-date in that location (see:
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https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers/blob/master/demos/cube.c).
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====
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=== Issues
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1) Should this extension include a method to query whether a physical device
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supports presenting to a specific window or native surface on a given
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platform?
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*RESOLVED*: Yes.
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Without this, applications would need to create a device instance to
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determine whether a particular window can be presented to.
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Knowing that a device supports presentation to a platform in general is not
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sufficient, as a single machine might support multiple seats, or instances
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of the platform that each use different underlying physical devices.
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Additionally, on some platforms, such as the X Window System, different
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drivers and devices might be used for different windows depending on which
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section of the desktop they exist on.
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2) Should the flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR,
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flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR, and
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flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModesKHR functions from
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+VK_KHR_swapchain+ be modified to operate on physical devices and moved to
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this extension to implement the resolution of issue 1?
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*RESOLVED*: No, separate query functions are needed, as the purposes served
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are similar but incompatible.
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The ftext:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurface*KHR functions return information that
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could potentially depend on an initialized device.
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For example, the formats supported for presentation to the surface might
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vary depending on which device extensions are enabled.
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The query introduced to resolve issue 1 should be used only to query generic
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driver or platform properties.
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The physical device parameter is intended to serve only as an identifier
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rather than a stateful object.
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3) Should Vulkan include support Xlib or XCB as the API for accessing the X
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Window System platform?
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*RESOLVED*: Both.
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XCB is a more modern and efficient API, but Xlib usage is deeply ingrained
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in many applications and likely will remain in use for the foreseeable
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future.
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Not all drivers necessarily need to support both, but including both as
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options in the core specification will probably encourage support, which
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should in turn eases adoption of the Vulkan API in older codebases.
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Additionally, the performance improvements possible with XCB likely will not
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have a measurable impact on the performance of Vulkan presentation and other
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minimal window system interactions defined here.
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4) Should the GBM platform be included in the list of platform enums?
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*RESOLVED*: Deferred, and will be addressed with a platform-specific
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extension to be written in the future.
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=== Version History
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* Revision 1, 2015-05-20 (James Jones)
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- Initial draft, based on LunarG KHR spec, other KHR specs, patches
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attached to bugs.
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* Revision 2, 2015-05-22 (Ian Elliott)
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- Created initial Description section.
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- Removed query for whether a platform requires the use of a queue for
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presentation, since it was decided that presentation will always be
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modeled as being part of the queue.
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- Fixed typos and other minor mistakes.
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* Revision 3, 2015-05-26 (Ian Elliott)
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- Improved the Description section.
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* Revision 4, 2015-05-27 (James Jones)
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- Fixed compilation errors in example code.
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* Revision 5, 2015-06-01 (James Jones)
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- Added issues 1 and 2 and made related spec updates.
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* Revision 6, 2015-06-01 (James Jones)
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- Merged the platform type mappings table previously removed from
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VK_KHR_swapchain with the platform description table in this spec.
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- Added issues 3 and 4 documenting choices made when building the initial
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list of native platforms supported.
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* Revision 7, 2015-06-11 (Ian Elliott)
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- Updated table 1 per input from the KHR TSG.
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- Updated issue 4 (GBM) per discussion with Daniel Stone.
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He will create a platform-specific extension sometime in the future.
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* Revision 8, 2015-06-17 (James Jones)
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- Updated enum-extending values using new convention.
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- Fixed the value of VK_SURFACE_PLATFORM_INFO_TYPE_SUPPORTED_KHR.
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* Revision 9, 2015-06-17 (James Jones)
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- Rebased on Vulkan API version 126.
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* Revision 10, 2015-06-18 (James Jones)
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- Marked issues 2 and 3 resolved.
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* Revision 11, 2015-06-23 (Ian Elliott)
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- Examples now show use of function pointers for extension functions.
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- Eliminated extraneous whitespace.
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* Revision 12, 2015-07-07 (Daniel Rakos)
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- Added error section describing when each error is expected to be
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reported.
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- Replaced the term "queue node index" with "queue family index" in the
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spec as that is the agreed term to be used in the latest version of the
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core header and spec.
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- Replaced bool32_t with VkBool32.
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* Revision 13, 2015-08-06 (Daniel Rakos)
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- Updated spec against latest core API header version.
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* Revision 14, 2015-08-20 (Ian Elliott)
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- Renamed this extension and all of its enumerations, types, functions,
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etc.
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This makes it compliant with the proposed standard for Vulkan
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extensions.
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- Switched from "revision" to "version", including use of the
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VK_MAKE_VERSION macro in the header file.
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- Did miscellaneous cleanup, etc.
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* Revision 15, 2015-08-20 (Ian Elliott--porting a 2015-07-29 change from
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James Jones)
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- Moved the surface transform enums here from VK_WSI_swapchain so they
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could be re-used by VK_WSI_display.
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* Revision 16, 2015-09-01 (James Jones)
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- Restore single-field revision number.
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* Revision 17, 2015-09-01 (James Jones)
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- Fix example code compilation errors.
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* Revision 18, 2015-09-26 (Jesse Hall)
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- Replaced VkSurfaceDescriptionKHR with the VkSurfaceKHR object, which is
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created via layered extensions.
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Added VkDestroySurfaceKHR.
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* Revision 19, 2015-09-28 (Jesse Hall)
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- Renamed from VK_EXT_KHR_swapchain to VK_EXT_KHR_surface.
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* Revision 20, 2015-09-30 (Jeff Vigil)
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- Add error result VK_ERROR_SURFACE_LOST_KHR.
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* Revision 21, 2015-10-15 (Daniel Rakos)
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- Updated the resolution of issue #2 and include the surface capability
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queries in this extension.
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- Renamed SurfaceProperties to SurfaceCapabilities as it better reflects
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that the values returned are the capabilities of the surface on a
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particular device.
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- Other minor cleanup and consistency changes.
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* Revision 22, 2015-10-26 (Ian Elliott)
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- Renamed from VK_EXT_KHR_surface to VK_KHR_surface.
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* Revision 23, 2015-11-03 (Daniel Rakos)
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- Added allocation callbacks to vkDestroySurfaceKHR.
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* Revision 24, 2015-11-10 (Jesse Hall)
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- Removed VkSurfaceTransformKHR.
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Use VkSurfaceTransformFlagBitsKHR instead.
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- Rename VkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR member maxImageArraySize to
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maxImageArrayLayers.
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* Revision 25, 2016-01-14 (James Jones)
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- Moved VK_ERROR_NATIVE_WINDOW_IN_USE_KHR from the VK_KHR_android_surface
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to the VK_KHR_surface extension.
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* 2016-08-23 (Ian Elliott)
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- Update the example code, to not have so many characters per line, and
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to split out a new example to show how to obtain function pointers.
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* 2016-08-25 (Ian Elliott)
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- A note was added at the beginning of the example code, stating that it
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will be removed from future versions of the appendix.
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