[Plib-users] Hi to the lists

[Juergen F. <fuh...@wi...>]

Hi, 

I         am          the         developer         of         gltools
<http://www.wias-berlin.de/software/gltools>   which    is   a   small
visualization tool for numerical analysts, and now distributed under a
MIT like license.

With gltools,  even a Fortran  programmer is able to  call interactive
OpenGL from  a legacy code  producing data timestep by  timestep.  The
consequence is that the GLUT way of mainloop calling everything is not
appropriate. So I do my own X window handling.

I got  pui (plib 1.6.0) running  very well using  mutltiple windows on
top of this  windwow & event handling and using  the texture fonts.  I
very  much appreciate that  PUI allows  to completely  decouple widget
handling from the event queue etc.

I modified pui.cxx for using gltools. 

The better alternative IMHO would  be to have a registry mechanism for
the small  number of  window interface functions  necessary, something
like

puRegisterGetWindowFunction(glutGetWindow)

etc. etc. I could try to code this if there is interest to have this
in the release.  

Another idea  I have is to add texture font load from a character string
so at least the default font could be compiled in. 

Juergen



Juergen Fuhrmann                 Numerical Mathematics & Scientific Computing
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