On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:04 +0000, Carlos Pereira wrote: > Mikael Hallendal wrote: > > 3 mar 2008 kl. 22.48 skrev Carlos Pereira: > > > > Hi Carlos, > > > > GtkGLext seems to be the most popular GL Area to use these days. You > > might also want to look at Clutter [1] or Pigment [2] which are > > canvases offering some higher level abstractions for 2D/3D usages. It > > depends a bit on what you need, if you just want an area for pure GL > > I'd go with GtkGLext. > > > > Regarding future inclusion of GL in GTK+ there is an open bug about it > > in the Bugzilla [3], I started looking into it a while back but didn't > > have time to get anything off my hard drive. There are some open > > issues in that you can read about in the bug tracker. > > > Thanks Michael, > > I have red a few times that thread, that Owen started five years ago, > and apparently there is agreement in the essentials: > > 1) remove all the fat from Gtkglext, namely the wrapper functions > discussed in that thread, make it a small library that cares only for > opengl integration, that works in the X window system but also in > Windows and Mac OS X, exactly as Gtk.
Correct. > 2) change the name, for example to Gtkglarea 2.0*, the legitimate > sucessor to Gtkglarea 1 (the last version of Gtkglarea that I downloaded > last week is 1.99 and still comes with gtk_signal_connect and other Gtk > 1.2* functions deprecated long ago) No, gtkglarea is dead. We don't want a new widget. We want being able to render to widgets using OpenGL as an alternative to using cairo. That is, the GtkGlExt approach. > 3) make it an official (but optional) Gtk library, downloadble from > www.gtk.org. No. Push it into the Gtk+ tarball, probably as a new .so. Like gdk, gdk-pixbuf, and gtk are different .so's. > I believe this would make Gtk more appealing, particularly for > scientific/engineering/architecture applications. > Carlos Indeed. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
