Re: OpenGL, GtkGlArea, GtkGLExt

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:37 +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 18:14:39 Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:04 +0000, Carlos Pereira wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> GlArea still has many users and is the defacto standard for some languages.
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.

Yes, what you want is "to render general graphics quickly and easily
using OpenGL".  What you don't want is GlArea.  Tell us (developers)
what you need instead of what *you* think the solution is.

In the current plan, you will simply use GtkDrawingArea or any other
widget you like instead of GlArea.  It's the same level of API, just
works with any widget.


> > > I believe this would make Gtk more appealing, particularly for
> > > scientific/engineering/architecture applications.
> > > Carlos
>
> I am a scientist writing software for scientists and engineers using Gtk from 
> OCaml via the LablGTK2 bindings. There are OCaml bindings for GlArea but not 
> GlExt because GlExt is considered too complicated to be worth binding.
>
> 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.
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