[Interest] Can't login to bugreports.qt.io / OpenGL bug

[Sean Harmer]

On Wednesday 23 March 2016 08:35:30 Yves Bailly wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Not sure where to ask, so I post here....
> 
> I'm trying to report a bug, but I can't login to bugreports.qt.io nor
> login.qt.io.
 I gave a mail address, a password, but then I'm stuck at the
> page " This will be your username at blabla": when I click "Set username",
> it ends with a "Internal server error" page. 
> Tried on Windows 7, 64bits, Firefox & IE.
> 
> Any hint is welcome...
> 
> And just in case, here's the bug:
> - Download and install Qt 5.6.0 for Windows, 64bits, Visual 2013
> - Open \5.6\Src\qtbase\examples\opengl\qopenglwidget\ qopenglwidget.pro
> example in QtCreator
 - Build, run: fine.
> - Set the screen colors to 65536 (16bits), from
> "Display/Resolution/Advanced" monitor property.
 - Build, run: crash.
> Tested in Windows 7, 64bits, GPU nVidia Quadro K2000. In can give a call
> stack is needed.

The example requests a 32-bit RGBA default framebuffer. System can't provide it 
as you set it to 16-bit colour. Example doesn't check for this case. Boom.

1) Change system back to 32-bit color (24-bit RGB)
2) Change example to request 16-bit framebuffer.

Cheers,

Sean
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