Re: [wxhaskell-devel] OpenGL support

[Dave T. <duk...@gm...>]

On 16 November 2011 16:42, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 21 October 2011 18:43, Dave Tapley <duk...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 October 2011 11:28, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> Did the work on OpenGL, or the branch you mention on darcsden[1] ever
>> >> get anywhere? I'd like to nominate myself to work on it :)
>
> [snip]
>> I am in the process of digging out the old OpenGL support for wxHaskell -
>> it
>> was removed a while back due to build problems on some targets. You will
>> probably need to add support for wxGLContext, which was never wrapped, but
>> the wxGLCanvas code should work provided you link with the correct
>> libraries.
>>
>> I've suggested to Joel that I send a patch with wxGLCanvas support which
>> you
>> can put on your Darcsden repo as a starting point. I'll make it compile
>> and
>> link for Ubuntu, but I won't have time to check whether it is very
>> complete
>> or functional, so you will likely have some work to do before it is
>> usable.
>
>> That sounds great, I'm on Ubuntu as well. Don't worry about stability,
>> it is most definitely a -dev branch!
>> If you want to throw it in to my repo that would be great, I've added
>> you to the members list so hopefully you can push.
>
> Attached is a patch reinstating OpenGL for your wxWidgets 2.9 branch. It has
> been tested against a home-built wxWidgets 2.9.2 on a 32 bit install of the
> latest Ubuntu (boy, was it a pain getting wxWidgets OpenGL support to
> compile, but that's another story).

Yikes, I don't want to know :|

>
> I should warn that the sample code doesn't work properly yet (it does
> compile, link and 'run', but there's nothing in the window). I suspect that
> this is because the wxWidgets API in OpenGL has changed, and there needs to
> be a bit more event handling in place, but until I have confirmed, you
> should consider this only a partial patch.

Hmm, not sure, I don't see anything mentioned here:
http://trac.wxwidgets.org/wiki/Roadmap

But that's not to say some magic hasn't happened..

>
> I'll try to get around to committing to Darcsden if I can manage a
> successful push, and will be continuing to look at the sample code to try to
> work out why it doesn't work.

Cool :)

>
> Best regards
> Jeremy
>