Fwd: GtkGLArea for glChess?

["Robert Ancell" <robert ancell gmail com>]

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From: Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>
Date: 23-Jan-2007 21:16
Subject: Re: GtkGLArea for glChess?
To: Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>


I started using GtkGLArea back when I started combining GL and GTK+. I
changed to GtkGLExt as GtkGLArea became unmaintained. There looks like
there was an attempt to resurrect it
(http://www.mono-project.com/GtkGLArea). The packages in Ubuntu link
to GTK 1.2 and there are no python bindings available.

I think it would be a bad idea to link to multiple 3D libraries as
this creates a maintainence issue and GtkGLExt seems to be the
dominant library. What we really need is project Ridley
(http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley) to make native GL support (what
we want is gtk_widget_get_gl_context() like Cairo has). Unfortunately
I don't have the time or low level GL experience to get involved in
this at the moment.

So, yes it is possible. I can't (easily) test with my current system
and I suspect the library is unmaintained anyway. If anyone knows of a
distibution with easily installed python support for GtkGLArea on
GTK+2.0 please reply here.

--Robert

ps Andreas; trying to get it in before 2.18 - what a slave driver!

On 22/01/07, Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no> wrote:
> glChess currently supports 2D mode using gtk/cairo, and 3D OpenGL using.
> gtkglext. Which changes would be required for glChess to support GtkGLArea
> for Python (python-gtkglarea)?
>
> It would be great if glChess could support as many graphical toolkits as
> possible, and since many Linux distributions only ship with either
> GtkGLArea or gtkglext, I think that glChess should support both, if
> possible.
>
> So is this possible to do with glChess? What is the difference between
> GtkGLArea and gtkglext really? I haven't developed anything using either
> of these OpenGl libraries, but I've done some OpenGl programming
> previously.
>
> And could this be rushed in before gnome-games 2.18?  :-)
>
>   - Andreas