From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-01-15T11:44:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Librend 0.4

From: "Ilmari Heikkinen" <ilmari.heikkinen@gmail.com>
>
>> I had planned to use SDL/OpenGL for my current application, but have switched to
>> FreeGLUT since it allows multiple windows.
> 
> Yeah, I think it's limited to a single window. GLUT is a better fit
> for multiple windows but sadly its input handling is less than stellar
> :/

Ah, rats.  Hmm.  Is it that it responds poorly/sluggisly to input?  Or 
inconvenient API for getting events?  (or...?)

> There still are remains of the old GLUT backend there, I suppose it
> might work with some tweaking. Another possibility would be to write a
> GTK/QT backend to manage the input and provide OpenGL context. Might
> be a worthwhile goal to pursue for the next version..

Cool, I wasn't/am not yet familiar with GTK - just did a web search and
found: GtkGLExt http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/ 

Looks nice, I'll have to try it out.  (Cool, there seem to already be Ruby
bindings: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk%3A%3AGL )


Regards,

Bill