Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?

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On Monday, August 18, 2014 6:29:23 PM UTC-7, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote:
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> > On 8/16/2014 5:13 PM, pincerfae@gmail.com wrote:
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> >> I was looking at SDL and Delphi/Object Pascal for a bit,
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> > Fyi; On the subject of SDL or OpenGL, here is a youtube on it:
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> > "Should I Learn OpenGL or SDL?"
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsSm6NWQ77g
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> > --Nasser
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> SDL and OpenGL are not the same thing. SDL provides a platform independent
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> layer with some GL helper functions. OpenGL is a 3D graphics library.

you're absolutely right about that.
Apparently, you can use SDL to interface with OpenGL, depending on the language.
It seems to favor a GUI environment, though, and can be cross-platform.
Unfortunately, it's another api you have to learn, and I'm not too sure of the documentation at this point.