[sdljava-users] Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome and OpenGL?

[John M. G. <joh...@ya...>]

--- Gregor Mückl <Gre...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 22:56, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> > --- Anthony Green <gr...@re...> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:39 +0200, Gregor Mückl wrote:
> > > > Naturally, we also need support for OpenGL widgets. I've been planning
> > > > to write a wrapper around gtkglarea in the spirit of the widget class
> > > > that gtkglarea-- provides. But as things currently are, other bits of
> > > > this
> > >
> > > project
> > >
> > > > have priority and I've not yet written any code. I just want to let you
> > >
> > > know
> > >
> > > > that I'm probably up to something.
> > >
> > > I wonder if JOGL or LWJGL could be adapted to work with java-gnome.
> > > Have you considered this yet?
> >
> > Or the gljava ( http://gljava.sourceforge.net/ ) portion of
> > sdljava ( http://sdljava.sourceforge.net/ )?
> >
> > http://www.simisen.com/jmg/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Sdljava
> >
> 
> To me, gljava looks like the best-fitting candidate for providing
> the GL side of the bindings. However, I'm a bit afraid that they
> were merged into sdljava and won't be maintained as a standalone
> library.
> 
> Regards,
> Gregor

By the looks of things, it seems that gljava was designed to be
separate right from the beginning. For one thing, they've got a
separate website up for gljava. Also, note the separation in the
list of packages:

org.gljava.opengl
org.gljava.opengl.ftgl
org.gljava.opengl.impl.glew
org.gljava.opengl.model
org.gljava.opengl.x.swig
sdljava
sdljava.audio
sdljava.cdrom
sdljava.event
sdljava.image
sdljava.joystick
sdljava.mixer
sdljava.ttf
sdljava.util
sdljava.video
sdljava.x.swig
sdljavax.gfx
sdljavax.gui

Further, my guess is that the sdljava guys *want* gljava
to stay separate, in case someone comes along and creates
some bindings for freeglut -- which, I've been told, should
be fairly simple using SWIG. This way, you could use "glutjava"
and gljava without needing sdljava.

The fact that the whole kit-and-kaboodle is LGPL is the icing
on the cake.

Since this topic just came up on the sdljava list, I'm cc'ing
them on it.

---John



		
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