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- From: manyin@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Manyin)
- Subject: FORMS and OpenGL
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.101034@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: FORMS, OpenGL, X event queue
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- Reply-To: manyin@helene.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Manyin)
- Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:10:34 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- I have a question for any and all users of the FORMS
- library, written by Mark Overmars of Utrecht University (Netherlands).
-
- (As was recently mentioned on this newsgroup, FORMS
- is a GL-based package useful in constructing user interfaces.
- Its simplicity, appearance, and source code availablity make
- it quite appealing, as does its status as public domain software.)
-
- THE QUESTION:
- Has anyone made provisions for the eventual migration to OpenGL?
- I realize that support for Iris GL should be available for several
- years to come, but future enhancements and portability issues
- make OpenGL the way to go.
-
- My correspondence with the author leads me to believe
- that his single-handed support of the library is too time consuming
- to continue, or at least that major modifications to FORMS
- are not in his plans.
-
- The primary issue in converting FORMS to OpenGL is the event queue.
- Has anyone tried
- (i) rewriting FORMS to use GLX? -- changing code related to the
- event queue and window management
- (ii) changing FORMS to use the X event queue? --
- i.e. opening GL windows, securing
- their X window IDs, and working
- off the X queue
- (iii) rewriting FORMS completely in X11?... :-)
-
- Any other ideas on the subject? Thanks for your interest -
-
- Mike M.
-
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