Opengl newbie !

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by schoolkid September 22, 2004 04:17 PM

3 comments, last by Kelly G 19 years, 6 months ago

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September 22, 2004 04:17 PM

hi all, what prevents OpenGL to have support for windowing/audio/events/sound etc...why do we need to depend on GLUT/SDL/QT etc.... ~boyd

NLDEV

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September 22, 2004 04:18 PM

OpenGL is a graphics API. All of those things you mentioned fall outside the purpose of OpenGL.

xanin

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September 22, 2004 04:38 PM

nothing _prevents_ it, there just is no builtin aspect of opengl that does this. The reasoning behind it is that if you exclude those things, opengl is portable and cross-platform capable and as MikeMJH points out, the purpose of OpenGL is narrowly defined to be a graphics API.

The original ancestor of opengl, IrisGL did actually have things like windowing and i believe input, but when it was decided to make opengl they moved to remove suc haspects to enhance the portability of opengl.
And ill stop there because im rambling

-*- The Burning Eye is back!

schoolkid

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September 22, 2004 04:50 PM

so, what does medium to higher level OpenGL games use for their windowing/sound/events etc....

~boyd