Re: [Opengl3dwm-devel] GTK User input

[Alon D. <alo...@gm...>]

Hey guys,

Well before i found out, i thought that to display a textbox inside the
openGL program we needed gtk or another kind of toolkit.

I guess I was wrong after taking to some people in #openGL.  It just seems
very hard to do in SDL.


On 4/12/06, Zarnick Maelstorm <p.z...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Ok, so why do you want to use GTK? I mean, we can do everything we
> want by using fscanf() and events of the SDL, why add another kind of
> lib? We are already using SDL, do you really think It's necessary to
> use GTK?
> Also, yes, this file manager is nice, and has some ideas we share,
> (didn't look at the code tough, will do soon) but we can't forget the
> whole big thing, the Window Manager, of course we could use some of
> their ideias, I just don't see the point of using GTK, since we are
> already using SDL, please do enlight me.
>
> On 4/12/06, Alon Dakik <alo...@gm...> wrote:
> > I think we need to use GTK to get user input into the program.
> >
> >
> > I need to pickup a person's typing so I can change directories....
> >
> > Also check out this URL, its a really good 3d File manager  i found at
> > http://libsdl.org
> >
> > 3DCatalogViewer - program shows the directory contents in 3D scene, it
> uses
> > GTK too
> >  http://mrg.risp.pl/jff/downloads.php
> >  Contact: mrgjff wp.pl
> >
> > You drive in the file manager and change directories by driving into
> > folders. Very similar idea to what I had in mind. Also look at his code
> > structure, not nearly as complicated as our code base.
> >
> >
> > you need to install  libsdl-image1.2-dev
> >
>
>
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