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Re: GTK+ & OpenGL

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Subject: Re: GTK+ & OpenGL
From: Randall Hopper <listaddr@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:11:02 -0600
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Abhir Joshi:
 |GTK+ cannot (???) be used with OpenGL.  Can anyone explain why?  I
 |have given it some thought but could not arrive at any possible
 |explanation since I an not aware of the internals of X.  
 |
 |But I can say that if GTK widgets have to be rendered on OpenGL
 |surfaces, all the OpenGL transformations have to be bypassed while
 |drawing those widgets.  So I guess without support from X, this should
 |be impossible.

Search for gtkglarea.  

That doesn't mean rendering the widgets in an OpenGL window.

Randall

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