Re: [Mesa3d-users] sgi's glut vs mesa-glut

[William G. <wil...@ek...>]

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>freeglut's implementation differs from GLUT-classic in a couple of
>significant ways - for example, the pull-down menu's are rendered in
>OpenGL instead of using the underlying windowing system.  That's
>good because it makes freeglut easier to port - and on ancient
>graphics devices like Voodoo-1's and -2's, it was the only way
>to make those menu's work (GLUT doesn't work well with those
>cards).
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It seems to me to be the fest thing to do. The code must be much more 
compact
by avoiding external windowing functionalities. May I also understand 
that by
using freeglut, I could map a user-interface on each side of a 3D cube ?
(the question may seem stupid but it should be understood in 
immersive/stereovision
applications)

 __________
|\   A    /|
| \______/ |
| B| E  |C |
|  |____|  |
| /  D   \ |
|/________\|

If the classical GLUT does 2D-windowing calls for displaying menus, it 
cannot.

Another question : does freeglut compile and run on win32 ?

William