2010/12/20 <dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl>: >> But why is it not possible to integrate this with the regular fpGUI ? >> Can you explain in a couple of sentences ? > > Can't remember having said that it was impossible with the current approach. > In fact it is perfectly doable. However (free)glut and opengl are already > available on a large number of platforms/targets. So if fpGUI is built upon > these libs then you immediately take the benefit of being able to support > these platforms. Additionally you don't have to implement a "complex" > interface between the different platforms this is handled already by glut > and opengl for you. So in effect it could make fpGUI simpler. And the last > plus is having a hardware accelerated gui. It just means it's lightning fast > and that's a plus for UI's. > Thats not all however, there are minusses. By using glut, you limit yourself > to the supported platforms/targets. So if new platforms/targets come along > then there is no way (unless you supply patches to the project) to add them. > With the current approach you're free to do it yourself. Also the API is > plain rigid. This means you'll have to adapt to that and live with it > (notice it's a plus and minus depending on how you look at it). (That is why > I would like to see a fpGlut some day ;) and believe me it will come to that > eventually!) > > I probably forgot a few plusses and minusses, but that's about it as far as > I'm concerned. Also I don't mean to say that using an opengl/glut backend is > superior to the current ones. It just has other benefits I suppose.
The above explains why it is useful for an application developer to use an openGL backend. It does not explain the following: Since fpGUI already has two backends (afaik, X and winap), why can't openGL a third one? Did you change the way fpGUI interfaces with its backend? Is this change so incompatible with the current backends, that they cannot be modified? Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
