Re: [openvrml-develop] GtkGLArea

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:51, pa...@la... wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As I understand it, the GtkGLArea widget needed by gtklookat
> was obsoleted by GtkGLExt (http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/)
> on some Linux distributions.
> 
> Is there any planned / in progress port to GtkGLExt ? Perhaps
> it was envisaged, and there exist some rationale against it ?
> 
> I would have looked at this topic on the mailing list first,
> but it doesn't seem to be archived.

I believe it hasn't been done because no one's done it yet. ;-)

I think gtklookat still uses GTK+ 1.2, rather than 2.x. Presumably an
update of the code to newer GTK+ would include an update to GtkGLExt.

The *lookats in general have a history of being only sporadically
maintained. I don't have the time or inclination to work on them myself,
so updating them (or not) has fallen to others. Hopefully Tom Flynn will
jump in and correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe gtklookat is in need
of a new maintainer.

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