From: Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...> - 2003-02-18 22:59:05
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Gentlemen, Having given up on the automatic installation of "freeglut" on Red Hat 8.0, I have made my own small "Makefile.local" which successfully creates a "libfreeglut.a" and puts it in a local subdirectory of mine. (I _hate_ messing with system library directories.) I have now successfully compiled the "atlantis" demo using both GLUT and "freeglut" and have a comparison. By and large, both programs worked the same way. The primary difference is that when I clicked on the "X" in the upper right hand corner of the window, the GLUT program stopped while the "freeglut" program did not. This is in spite of the fact that I had not set the behaviour to anything besides the default, which is supposed to be to stop the program. So this needs some work. One note: Mr. Afonso's observation that the animation freezes a bit when you try to resize or move the window (and flashes blank, too, on the resize) shows itself in both the GLUT and the "freeglut" versions. It would be nice if we could fix it but I wouldn't give it a high priority. Possibly I just need a bigger computer. I observe that when the whale (or shark) is swimming away from you it is drawn in such a way that its mouth is visible while when it is swimming towards you the mouth is on the far side. This is a feature of both the GLUT and the "freeglut" programs. John F. Fay joh...@eg... "It is a poverty to decide that an unborn child must die in order that you may live as you like." - Mother Teresa |