Re: [Csgl-users] CsGL and Mono

[Lloyd D. <ll...@ga...>]

Hi,

First I want to say I didn't use GLUT at all.
I write CsGL to be very neatly integrated in the System.Windows.Form
hierarchy.
In my mind a GL control should be just like any other Control.

And here it is, you just create an OpenGLControl, a subclass of
System.Windows.Forms.Control, a good citizen in WinForm population. So you
do need WinForm.
I know I write it !

And you could put as many OpenGLControl in you .NET application as you want,
and wherever you want. (in a Button ?) try to do that with GLUT !

However it's very modular, the OpenGLContext, the crucial and only OS
dependant OpenGL object doesn't depends on Winform. With a minimal amount of
work you could do a Gtk#, or GLUT version of it.

BTW, if I had to choose a multiplatform environment to write an GLControl, I
had choosed SDL (http://www.libsdl.org) library (not GLUT). But I didn't do
it because WinForm has many advantage over SDL (yet), Winform could have
mutliple windows ! Winforms could have transparent and odly shaped window !
SDL cannot do the above.

Anyway, now I have a good network (at last, just recently) and I will try to
upgrade CsGL to mono/FreeBSD as soon as possible,

Cheers,
Lloyd

PS: BTW I don't know about Gtk# and I don't think I will have the time to
investigate...
:-(
I will wait and go for mono/Winform.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Freddy BL" <fre...@ho...>
To: <mg...@st...>
Cc: <csg...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Csgl-users] CsGL and Mono


> Hi Michael!
>
>
> >I have tried CsGL in Mono.  For now it doesn't work.  Th ereason for this
> >is that Mono has not implemented Windows.Forms yet.
>
> Why do it need Windows.Forms?
> In C/C++ you can program with GLUT platformindepoendent.
> And if you want to use glx.h or wingl.h instead of this, you can integrate
> OpenGL in _any_ GUI!
> In C/C++ it was integrated in Gtk+, Qt and FLTK, Fox, etc.
> Why need the C#-Binding a special GUI?
>
>
> >  There are plans to use Wine or GTK to do it.
>
> But why do you need this GUI?
> With GLUT it can run platformindependent.
> And _if_ it is hard to integrate OpenGL in the special GUIs, _than_ it is
> the job for the Gtk#-Team, Qt#-Team or Mono-Winforms-Team.
> But it is the job of the CsGL-Team to make the CsGL for any platform and
any
> .net-implemenatation avaible. And this is possible - with GLUT. GLUT is
> platformindependent. That OpenGL and special GUIs work together, is _not_
> the job of CsGL - I think.
>
>
> >But because that aspect of Mono C# specification has not yet been
> >implemented,
> >CsGL won't work since it depends on that.
>
> And _why_ depends it on Windows.Forms?
>
>
> >I had asked this question to Lloyd on the sourceforge forum
>
> Have you a link to your post there?
>
>
> >and he said that it might be possible to use the GtkSharp library to do
> >windowing instead of the Windows.Forms, but I have played with the
GkSharp
> >a bit and it would require some work to integrate.
>
> Yes. But if it is a hard work, it is the job of the Gtk#-Team.
> But why does CsGL not running _without_ any special GUI on Mono/Linux?
>
>
> >Since GtkSharp requires the use of making everything static, it is really
> >annoying to work with.
>
> Hmmm... and do you know _why_ Gtk# makes everything static?
> And there was a time (older Gtk#-Version), where it was not so?
> Thats something, what someone can ask in the Gtk#-list.
>
>
> >Maybe, Lloyd can shead some light on the issue.
>
> I hope so.
>
>
> Greatings
> BL-Freddy
>
>
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