GtkGLArea

A view of a 3d Teapot generated using GtkGLAreaSharp - yes, I see the title bar.  I forgot to change the title in the demo :)
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A view of a 3d Teapot generated using GtkGLAreaSharp - yes, I see the title bar. I forgot to change the title in the demo :)

History

This is a widget originally developed in by J. Löf. Originally added to the GNOME CVS repository in 1999, it was used for a few projects shortly after its release. Since then, there have only been minor releases. The successive maintainer, Xavier Ordoquy was occupied with other Free Software packages and did not have time to maintain the codebase or build. Thus, there has not been a release since version 1.99 in May of 2003. In 2006, contrary to the advice of many folks who felt the project would be better left for dead, C.J. Adams-Collier took over the role of maintainer of the package.

Roadmap

Version 2.0 is expected "real soon now." This version will bring the win32 build environment up to date. Version 2.0 is planned for release during "the next year."

Version 2.1 plans to provide OS X support and is expected "probably next year."

The use of Cairo (http://cairographics.org/introduction) and Glitz (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/glitz) drawing surface is being considered as an OS-agnostic alternative to the GLX, WGL, AGL mess that has been used until now.

Projects using this package

Download

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkglarea/1.99/gtkglarea-1.99.0.tar.bz2