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

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

Stephen J Baker wrote:

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

In fact, I played with PUI yesterday and I find it very cool. If I remind well,
PUI depends on GLUT. Could it be feasible to remove this dependancy. [I want to 
send the GLX/wGL stuff directly to the trashcan.]
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William Gacquer
CTO - Directeur technique
EKKLA Research S.A.S.