Re: [pygame] Pygame and OpenGL

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Pete Shinners wrote:

>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>> Well, I created a simple OpenGL app just for testing my ideas, and it
>> works just fine. The following code Works For Me(tm):
>
>
>sounds like you already got it started, but don't overlook the "glcube" 
>sample the comes in the pygame examples directory :]

I looked in the examples directory, but I was apparently fairly blind...
Well, I see it now. :)

>the 'context' thing that comes with pyopengl is a simplish set of 
>classes that abstract out the opengl intialization stuff. technically if 
>you created something with this context, the program could run with 
>pygame, glut, wgl, or etc.
>
>this context thing is really only designed for small little opengl 
>projects. mainly it is an easy framework for people wanting to learn 
>opengl. they just make an instance of a class and give it a function to 
>draw. it can be expanded a little further by adding functions to handle 
>mouse/key events.
>
>you can use pyopengl without it, opengl just requires some other library 
>to handle window creation and input.

Yeah, I think I'll use pygame for all the event handling etc. It's a
tested environment that I know works well, and which gives me complete
freedom to do what I want. I suspect I'll have to hack up some OpenGL
stuff for a course on CG this spring, so the pygame/OpenGL combo will come
in handy. 

-- 

   Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
                                            -- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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