Re: Pixmap backend ?

Alexander Malmberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sébastien Pierre wrote:
[snip]
> Basically, I would like to render AppKit widgets/windows into pixmaps, 
> not for fancy remote display mechanism, but to use as textures in OpenGL.
> 
> Would this be feasible ?

Certainly. back-art (the rendering part) does just this.

(I even experimented with using OpenGL to get the results to the screen, 
but hardware/driver limitations at the time stopped me from getting very 
far. I should try again someday. :)

- Alexander Malmberg
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