[Plib-users] ANNOUNCING PLIB Version 1.8.0

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

ANNOUNCINGE PLIB Version 1.8.0
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There are a LOT of major new features in this release -
Many thanks are owed to many people for the effort they
put into this software.

Here is are the highlights:

   * puAux library added to provide a place for the
     more obscure PUI widgets.

   * PW (PLIB Windowing) library added to provide a
     built-in alternative to windowing libraries such
     as GLUT and SDL.  Applications that only need a
     single window, mouse and keyboard (and no other
     features of GLUT) can now have no dependencies
     whatever outside of PLIB and OpenGL.

   * PLIB is now completely independent of GLUT.  You
     can even build it without GLUT being installed.
     Modules to allow PUI to work with GLUT, freeglut,
     SDL, FLTK and our own PW windowing library are
     provided.

   * ssgAux now includes a relatively simple sky model
     kindly donated by the SimGear project.  Now you
     can have sun, moon, stars and clouds with just
     a handful of function calls.

   * PSL (PLIB Scripting Language) - a C-like interpreted
     scripting language is now bundled into PLIB.  It's
     a byte-code interpreter - and it has some useful
     properties for games and other interactive packages
     in that it allows the application much finer control
     over the running of the script(s) than traditional
     scripting engines.

   * In the demos area, we added the 'simon' package
     which provides a simple framework for PSL scripts
     to be loaded - and they may in turn load 3D models,
     move them around, etc.  Astropong.psl (a simple 3D
     'Pong' game in PSL) is provided as a demo.

And of course, many bugs have been slain and numerous
other smaller features have been added.

There are a couple of outstanding problems with the MSVC
project files - these will hopefully be fixed up in a couple of
days.  Windows users should be able to build with Cygwin without
problems.

Thanks again for everyone who helped:

        Steve Baker.



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