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Prolly been asked 34232432 times already, but is it a good thing to start learning ogl using glut? Is there a big difference in using it and making your own window?
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I use GLUT over win32/DirectInput (I have tried all three). It is much quicker and easier to develop with. You do get more functionality with the others but you won''t need that stuff for years.
DirectInput can allow you to make use of funky control devices like force-feedback joysticks.
You would need to use win32 if you wanted a fully multi-tasking windows-compatible application but you don''t really need it for games. There are a few lines of win32 in my code to set the mouse cursor position which GLUT cannot do, but all the basic work is done by GLUT.
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DirectInput can allow you to make use of funky control devices like force-feedback joysticks.
You would need to use win32 if you wanted a fully multi-tasking windows-compatible application but you don''t really need it for games. There are a few lines of win32 in my code to set the mouse cursor position which GLUT cannot do, but all the basic work is done by GLUT.
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Ok. Yeah I guess it would be to reinvent the wheel if I started using the win32 api. I doubt I could make it more effecient at this time than glut does it. Might be that I´ll use it later on if I let´s say wanted to do an editor or something, but for now I´ll go glut.
Glut isn''t updated anymore!! Use SDL.
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SDL can do 2D graphics, input, sound, and quite a few other things, and it can be used in combination with OpenGL for 3D graphics.
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So SDL isn´t doing graphics, it just handles sound/input etc? Like DirectX - d3d?
Something like this, but SDL is platform independet of course.
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