Re: Status of the GNU 3DKit

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Pete French wrote:
> > BTW has anybody started to work on a NSOpenGLView implementation for 
> > GNUstep?
> 
> Is there a reference to the API for this anywhere ? All the 3D stuff I
> do in OpenStep is done with an off-screen bitmap that is attached
> to an NSBitmapImageRep and then thrown into a window. O.K., so not the most
> efficient way of doing things, but would form a very easy basis to implement
> a portable OpenGLView wouldnt it ? I dont know how that affects acceleration
> under X11-4 though. I am assuming that cards dont accelerate off-screen
> bitmap rendering stuff in Mesa, sepite the fact I now have to link all
> my commandline apps against the X11 libraries.

It's part of Cocoa/Mac OS X. See ie.

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/OpenGL/index.html

In order to have accelerated GL on X11 you need a direct GLX context.

-Phil
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