Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and hope my question is not a total obvious one, but at the end of the day I'm more a scientist than a programmer. So I hope I got the facts right.
I'm trying to build PyMol, an open-core molecular visualisation program with cygwin (www.pymol.org). This software uses OpenGL for displaying three-dimensional structures of proteins on the screen and allows manipulating these structure in various ways in 3D. It also allows true three-dimensional display with the (Nvidia) shutter glasses. It took my a while to get all the dependencies right, but I was finally able to build it successfully and it works in nearly all aspects. However, the program does not recognise any input in the "graphic/display window" from the mouse wheel, although the TKinter/Tcl based menu window does accept scroll events. Together with a colleague, we figured out that the win32 port of GLUT might be the problem, as it seems not to handle mouse wheel events (source:http://www.realmtech.net/opengl/glut.php) My colleague was able to build PyMol with the X11 headers and Libs and then the mouse wheel worked, but the speed was (as expected) not acceptable. What are you thinking, is the win32 version of GLUT really the problem? I did found FreeGlut and as it should be a "modern clone" of GLUT´, I tried to compile it for Cygwin. I got an cygglut-0.dll and some header files, but they never compiled well with PyMol (which uses a rather complicated python script). My colleague found this message from André Bleau http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00264.html, where Mr. Bleau stated he hopes to publish GLUT32 replacement based on FreeGlut around 2010. I just wonder if this new package will be available any-time soon or if anyone else has a good idea how to proceed with this problem? With kind regards, Jan Gebauer PS: Thanks to all the cygwin contributors, it's the first time I used it and it works rather great! -- Dr. Jan Gebauer Phone: +44 20 7594 7915 | Fax: +44 20 7589 0191 Research group: Dr. E. Hohenester Division of Cell & Molecular Biology Imperial College London Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory London SW7 2AZ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
