Re: [gtkmm] What Open-GL widget to use with gtkmm-2 ?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 20:03, Oskar Enoksson wrote:
> Hello. I need some advice on what widget to use for Open-GL graphics 
> with gtkmm-2.
> 
> As I understand it, gtkglareamm and gtkglarea is only for gtk--1 ... at 
> least that is what the gtkglarea homepage says, but there seems to be a 
> package named libgtkglarea2.0-1.99.0-5mdk for Mandrake Linux. Is that 
> gtkglarea for gtk-2 ? And if so, is there a gtkglareamm-2 also?
> 
> I have also looked at gtkglext and gtkglextmm.
> 
> Gtkglext seems to work fine on my platform, but gtkglextmm crashes.
>  Is 
> this widget not stable? My Linux Mandrake-92 hangs when running the 
> gtkglextmm examples (everything freezes and nothing but a hard reset 
> helps). My own test application with gtkglextmm got segmentation error 
> somewhere in a Mesa call.

gtkglext(mm) seems to be actively developed. You should ask on the
appropriate mailing list about any problems with it.

> So, if gtkglareamm-2 doesn't exist and gtkglextmm is unstable, what 
> options is there for having OpenGL in a gtkmm application? Or must I use Qt?

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