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Subject: Re: Anouncement: OpenGL Binding w/ Ada-2012.
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On Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:16:52 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
> I've recently completed the initial binding for OpenGL to Ada 2012.
>=20
> It's available at http://github.com/OneWingedShark/TAO-GL
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Some notes:
>=20
>=20
>=20
> 1) Currently all the functions from OpenGL 1.1 are included; this is beca=
use I didn't realize at the time how dated the C-headers I started out with=
 were -- though it makes little difference in the overall amount of work wh=
ich is mostly reading documentation and typing/subtyping enumerations for t=
he parameters.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> 2) The preconditions are at present mostly minimalistic (just the easy/st=
raightforward preconditions), though all of them should have the correct re=
strictions regarding the "raises error between glBegin/glEnd" restriction.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> 3) There are a few points where the binding is not nearly thick enough fo=
r my taste, mostly because I'm unsure of how to correctly translate the fun=
ction [parameters esp] into nice Ada; this usually results in an exposed Sy=
stem.Address parameter.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> If you do give it a try, feel free to post impressions, ideas, suggestion=
s.
>=20
> Thank you.

Do you intend to get this working with modern OpenGL (ie 3+), as I was disa=
ppointed to see that the existing Ada bindings are only for OpenGL 2.1 and =
being able to use current OpenGL from current Ada would be great.

Keep up the good work.