Re: glu & gl bindings

["philippe.torgue@free.fr" <philippe.torgue@free.fr>]

Lucretia wrote:

goddamn!
lumen wants to succeed glut ...

when can I finally get out of the mire of my crass ignorance! :D

at the crack of dawn, I would go see what freenode

Philippe.

> On Aug 16, 8:51�pm, "philippe.tor...@free.fr"
> <philippe.tor...@free.fr> wrote:
>> ok.
>>
>> "BTW" , �what does this word mean?
>>
>> > On Aug 16, 6:24 pm, "philippe.tor...@free.fr"
>> > <philippe.tor...@free.fr> wrote:
>> >> Do you know this library, Lumen
>>
>> >>http://www.niestu.com/software/lumen/
>>
>> >> I tried, it works very well. for this to be perfect, it only needs the binding glut
>>
>> >> Finally something new to ada, in the world of GUI.
>>
>> > Er...you don't need GLUT and BTW, GLUT is ancient.
>>
>> > Luke.
>>
>>
>
> BTW = By The Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btw)
>
> Also, I think you need to understand a couple of things:
>
> 1) GLUT was created as a way to get into OpenGL quickly as setting up
> a window and getting
> contexts working is not exactly easy and generally time consuming and
> people really want
> to play with GL from the outset.
>
> 2) Nobody really uses GLUT anymore since SDL was invented.
>
> 3) Lumen is not just a UI toolkit, but is a replacement for GLUT and
> others in that ilk as
> well. Lumen will provide the windowing functionality that GLUT/SDL
> provides.
>
> If you want to talk about Lumen or ask any questions, come to #Ada on
> Freenode and hang about
> longer than 2 mins if you want a response :D
>
> Luke.