Re: using OpenGL without windowing systems
"Stephen J Baker" <[email protected]>
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Andras Balogh wrote: > The strange thing is that OpenGL tries to be independent of the windowing > system, yet it's so tightly coupled to the windowing system, that you cannot > use it without one... Well, the *API* is independent of the windowing system - but any particular driver isn't. To the contrary - drivers are tightly coupled to the windowing system because they have to cope with clipping to window boundaries, window resizing, etc, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The second law of Frisbee throwing states: "Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!"...it turns out that this also applies to writing Fragment Shaders. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail) L3Com/Link Simulation & Training (817)619-2466 (Fax) Work: [email protected] http://www.link.com Home: [email protected] http://www.sjbaker.org ----- FAQ and OpenGL Resources at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9956/OpenGL -- Author: Stephen J Baker INET: [email protected] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [email protected] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB OPENGL-GAMEDEV-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).