Re: Pixmap backend ?

Alex Perez <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:10:17 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> SÃ©bastien 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. :)

Indeed, now that your new machine is far from old and decrepit...