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

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, William Gacquer wrote:

> 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 ?

I don't think so.  freeglut uses glBitMap's to render fonts (same as
GLUT-classic) - and these don't transform.  Also, GLUT (and hence freeglut)
only has a simple popup menu - it's hardly a full GUI.

However, I've done that kind of thing with my own 'PUI' library (part
of PLIB at http://plib.sf.net) - it's not hard to do.

> (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.

Indeed.  Check out PUI.  It not only renders the boxes and such using
polygons - but also has an option to use texture-mapped fonts which
can be transformed as you require.

> Another question : does freeglut compile and run on win32 ?

I believe so - but I've never done that myself.

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