Using Ibex inside SDL/OpenGL

I've been thinking potentially Ibex could be the first easy, XUL-like
GUI for OpenGl and/or SDL applications.

Am I kidding myself, or could this be almost as simple as creating an
SDL platform and an OpenGL platform in src/org/ibex/platform?  ie
delegate the drawing to SDL/OpenGL.

The only other major issue I can think of is to make Ibex interact with
an OpenGL/SDL canvas.  This, though, is also something we'd have to
address if we ever wanted to use 'custom' views e.g. an movie player.

Perhaps another node for the ui namespace: <ui:canvas />

A canvas would be like a box except it's fill attribute is instead a
pointer to something else.

For instance:

<ui:canvas fill="external:uid" /> // SDL/OpenGL use uid to get canvas
<ui:canvas fill="mpeg:http://foo.com/bar.mpeg" />

Once the widgets become more stable I'm very interested in taking on
libibex as a project, as I think it could be a key area for Ibex if we
were to properly follow through with it.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
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