Re: [Plib-devel] PUI crash in Tuxkart.

[Sam S. <sa...@sp...>]

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From: "Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG" <joh...@eg...>
To: <pli...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Plib-devel] PUI crash in Tuxkart.


> The change allows me to activate a widget (like an input box) and then go to
> my graphics window and right-click on an item (like a point, line, or
> surface in my CFD grid) and have its point/line/surface number appear in the
> input widget.  It uses the display list feature of OpenGL.  It's very handy
> in all circumstances in my code and is frequently essential.  I'm working on
> a sample program to exercise it.
>
> If somebody who can reproduce the problem will contact me off-line we can
> set up a phone call and he can talk his way through it, telling me what
> happens before it crashes.  I've not been able to download the Tuxkart
> files; Ben Woodhead has very kindly sent me most of them but I don't have a
> Windows 98-compatible "glut.lib" file.

Youc can get the Windows 98 glut files from:

http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html

But you only want to be using glut.lib if you are using SGI's OpenGL.  glut.lib links to opengl.lib (SGI's OpenGL).  If you are
using hardware OpenGL you should link against glut32.lib and opengl32.lib.

Sam