Re: [Freeglut-developer] Release Candidate 2 status

[John F. F. <joh...@cy...>]

OK, they are deprecated, they are unusable, they are gone.  At least 
the "freeglutdll.def" entries are gone.  I propose to take the 
functions out themselves after 2.6.0 is released.

         - John


At 01:03 AM 11/14/2009, you wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>John F. Fay wrote:
> > Buy the way, I've been looking for where the deprecated joystick
> > functions are marked as deprecated and cannot find it.  Can you give
> > me a pointer please?
>
>It's noted from line 172 in "freeglut_ext.h":
>
>/* USE OF THESE FUNCTIONS IS DEPRECATED !!!!! */
>/* If you have a serious need for these functions in your application,
>please either
>  * contact the "freeglut" developer community at
>fre...@li...,
>  * switch to the OpenGLUT library, or else port your joystick
>functionality over to PLIB's
>  * "js" library.
>  */
>
>The functions are mostly unused apart from in a few calls to
>"glutDeviceGet", i.e. if you pass in "GLUT_JOYSTICK_AXES". If you
>attempt to use the functions in a freeglut app, you'll get undefined
>references at link time because the functions are not marked "FGAPI".
>
>Regards,
>Martin
>
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