From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:43:07 -0600
Date: 2014-08-03T10:43:07-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xEtDv.167805$ne6.56537@fx09.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc15dfea-df0b-4320-848a-2b1faea5a691@googlegroups.com>
On 03-Aug-14 03:35, jsquirek@gmail.com wrote:
> OpenGL is a C library designed for C programmers so it
> is probably best you use C first then apply your
> knowledge to using Ada libraries if you are still adamant.
This is untrue; OpenGL is *NOT* a C-library -- from wiki:
> Although the function definitions are superficially
> similar to those of the C programming language, they are
> language-independent.
[…]
> In addition to being language-independent, OpenGL is also
> platform-independent. The specification says nothing on
> the subject of obtaining, and managing, an OpenGL context,
> leaving this as a detail of the underlying windowing system.
> For the same reason, OpenGL is purely concerned with
> rendering, providing no APIs related to input, audio, or
> windowing.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#Design
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2014-08-02 20:54 is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause? pincerfae
2014-08-03 9:35 ` jsquirek
2014-08-03 9:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-03 10:27 ` jsquirek
2014-08-03 11:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-03 12:40 ` jsquirek
2014-08-04 12:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-04 19:14 ` Björn Lundin
2014-08-03 16:46 ` Shark8
2014-08-04 1:38 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-03 16:43 ` Shark8 [this message]
2014-08-03 12:12 ` francois_fabien
2014-08-05 16:24 ` leonid.dulman
2014-08-13 23:23 ` pincerfae
2014-08-14 1:47 ` Shark8
2014-08-15 14:53 ` Stephen Leake
2014-08-15 16:50 ` Shark8
2014-08-15 13:28 ` jsquirek
2014-08-16 19:33 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-16 22:13 ` pincerfae
2014-08-17 11:32 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-08-18 16:35 ` Shark8
2014-08-18 20:26 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-08-18 21:01 ` Shark8
2014-08-18 21:44 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-08-18 21:49 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-18 22:21 ` Robert A Duff
2014-08-19 9:39 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-19 1:25 ` Shark8
2014-08-19 9:45 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-19 21:59 ` Shark8
2014-08-20 20:09 ` erlo
2014-08-19 7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-19 11:36 ` Björn Lundin
2014-08-25 5:27 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-08-19 0:57 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-19 1:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-08-24 22:35 ` pincerfae
2014-08-25 4:21 ` jsquirek
2014-08-25 15:58 ` Lucretia
2014-08-24 17:16 ` gdotone
2014-08-24 18:49 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-09-02 16:39 ` Quentin Ochem
2014-09-12 8:14 ` reinkor
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