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- From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: OpenGL and Motif Widgets
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.225817.22269@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 22:58:17 GMT
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- If I had had a chance to see OpenGL, I'm sure I wouldn't be asking
- this question, but does OpenGL support Motif widgets and/or
- does it have it's own widget library? Perhaps another way of
- asking this is there a "GL" widget library available to
- users? When the "big boys" at SGI write gl code with buttons,
- sliders, scroll bars, etc., what do they use?
-
- The reason I'm asking is that we are training students to
- write graphic programs for our Indigos and I would rather
- teach them IrixGL than Motif -- if learning IrixGL is
- more similar to the forthcoming OpenGL than Motif. However
- I'm alittle tired of writing my own widgets. (Yeah I know
- about the FORMS library).
-
- If OpenGL is open, and if various companies (e.g. DEC) are already
- showing OpenGL programs on their machines at SIGGRAPH,
- couldn't someone at least post a brief listing of the OpenGL
- functions/widgets? on comp.sys.sgi for those of us who couldn't
- afford the time/money to attend an SGI Developers conference :)
- Isn't it in SGI's strategic interest to get as many people programming
- in OpenGL as soon as possible?
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- "Is this the party to | David M. Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
- whom I am speaking?" | Brain Research Laboratory
- --Ernestine | The University of Texas at San Antonio
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