Re: [ngl-devel] NGL and GLUT using same Window?

[Jan Schaefer]

Hi NGL developers,

first of all, thank you for your quick responses. I already figured,
that it would be kind of tricky to get GLUT and NGL work together,
but I thought, maybe there is some kind of workaround. My Problem
ist the following: I have to implement a part of an OpenGL App, which
has to be intregrated with an already existing GLUT-based part. I'd
really like to use NGL and NUI, since there are some interesting
features (XML definition of NUI components, event model, and so on).
But the existing part probably can't be changed to NGL, so I guess,
I'll have to use GLUT.

Thanks again anyways,
Jan Schaefer


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>One thing you could try is to implement NGL low level window routines
>over GLUT. But then i'm not sure whta you would really gain for all the
>pain (except may be the ability to run NUI on top of GLUT).
>
>Sebastien
>
>Vincent Caron wrote:
>
>> Jan Schaefer wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i am trying to figure out, wether NGL is an option for my next project.
>>> There already exists an application using GLUT which cannot be changed
>>> to NGL. Is it possible to have a GLUT-based and a NGL-based app
>>> render to the same window, without to much hassle?
>>
>>
>>   Hello,
>>
>>   Glut and NGL do exactly the same thing, and it's relevant with the
>> window creation and event handling. Once you've created a window with
>> one of the toolkit, you have to manage the events with the same toolkit.
>> Then I don't see the point in having both toolkits if one is useless.
>>
>>   Note that due to very different underlying implementations in NGL and
>> Glut, you can run in strange and platform-dependent results if you mix
>> both toolkits (they make different assumptions on the application context).
>>
>>
>
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