Re: Status of openGL support in GtkAda.

[Vadim Godunko <vgodunko@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 12:37:02 PM UTC+4, Rod Kay wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had any success using openGL in GtkAda ? 
> 
> I tried a quick test today and although the 'Gtk.GLArea' and 
> 'Gdk.GLContext' packages are present, I was unable to get a GL context. 
> 
> Also, the testgtk program has no openGL demo, as it used to have. 
> 
> I used openGL/GtkAda to good effect many years ago. Has openGL 
> support then been dropped completely ? 
> 
> I recall there was a Gtk3 bug related to openGL and thought that 
> might possibly be the reason why it is absent in GtkAda. Does GtkAda use 
> Gtk4, yet ? 
> 
> I'm quite keen to try my hand at game programming (and have 
> developed an Ada game engine library), so any advice/info would be 
> greatly appreciated. 
> 
Rod,

GtkAda is binding for Gtk+ 3.24.x version, it doesn't support Gtk 4.

GtkAda doesn't provide OpenGL API binding, but supports OpenGL. There is no example in testgtk for this reason - it requires OpenGL API binding.