On Wednesday 05 March 2008 09:35:46 Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:37 +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > > > No, gtkglarea is dead. > > > > GlArea still has many users and is the defacto standard for some > > languages. > > it may have many users, but it's unmaintained, so it is ipso facto > "dead".
Yes. Nobody has added FSAA support to GlArea AFAIK. > > I'm not sure who you are referring to as "we" but many people need little > > beyond GlArea. I have no desire to create Gtk-compatible widgets. I only > > want to render general graphics quickly and easily using OpenGL. > > on the bug linked in the thread, and in many gtk+ developers team > meetings it was reached a consensus for an integration towards a > cairo-style approach: inside the ::expose-event handlers you can > retrieve a GL context, draw on it using the GL API and the result will > be rendered on the widget's window. > > that's what "we" means. I see. Thank you. > > If anyone is interested in improving the situation for scientists and > > engineers then I would recommend taking this into account: keep it simple > > to bind. > > you can't really get much simpler than a: > > GLXContext gl_context; > > gl_context = gdk_glx_create_context (GDK_DRAWABLE (widget->window)); How would I provide parameters for the GL context (e.g. multisample)? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
