Re: GtkGLArea

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On 19 December 2016 at 20:05, Chris Moller <moller mollerware com> wrote:
> Over the last few days I wrote a little OpenGL/glut app and in the process
> noticed the existence of GtkGLArea.  Giving it a try, I'm getting the strong
> impression it's not ready for prime time, at least not in GTK 3.18.8--I keep
> getting "Unable to create a GL context" errors.

Without more information on your system it's unlikely you'll be able
to get a sensible answer.

You're not even saying which platform and operating system you're using.

If you're using Linux or Windows: until GTK+ 3.20, the OpenGL support
in GTK+ required an implementation of OpenGL 3.2+ core profiles; in
3.20 I added support for legacy, GL 3.0 profiles, which are basically
the lowest we can get in order to get a decent GL API.

If you're using macOS: there's no GL integration for this platform.

>  Will a newer GTK work better?

It depends on the platform. On Linux and Windows, most likely. Nothing
happened on the macOS backend to improve the situation.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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