Re: Whatever became of gtkGL, gtkglarea, etc?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Peter Wainwright wrote:

> I need an OpenGL(TM) drawing area widget for my work (a finite element
> program). I have been using gtkglarea, and I know there is also a gtkGL
> package which is still available on CVS but apparently hasn't been updated
> in ages.
> 
> But neither of these is referenced in the Gnome software map, as far as
> I can see. They must have been there once or how did I find them
> originally? What is the current 'official' way of getting OpenGL/Mesa
> bindings in Gnome?

Last I heard, gtkglarea was "the" one to use.

The gtkGL in CVS is my hack of an old gtkGL version to turn it into a
proper GtkWidget. Not recommended for use due to the existence of the
well-maintained gtkglarea with a sane API (personal tastes
notwithstanding).

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