On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:58 +0100, Darius Blaszyk wrote: > > 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? > > The changes I think are pretty incompatible. This is because the GLut > library also provides messaging, whereas in fpGUI the messages are > implemented outside of the backend. Therefore hacks are needed to keep > the drawing messages coming correctly. With a pascal context library > everything could be merged seamless I suppose.
I've been badly mistaking. With some minor adjustments it will be possible to create an OpenGL back-end most probably. At least to a higher degree that I was proclaiming previously. I've now been able to hook most fpGUI messages to GLut. Regards, Darius _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
