sdl opengl gtk intigration
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Hi im going to make a litle level editor for my game.
I want to make it as plattform independent as possebly.
I am already using SDL and opengGL for my rendering, so still
want to be able to use this.
And I think GTK+ looks like a good api too learn.
Now the question :P
How hard is it to integrate a opengl window in GTK ?
If anybody got some good links to give me that would have been great.
Also any reasons not to use GTK for this?
Thats all folk;
This might help. Google for more.
Or you could just make your widget library yourself with SDL-GL and make it even more platform independent.
Or you could just make your widget library yourself with SDL-GL and make it even more platform independent.
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Another thing I was thinking about is this:
Should I make the "3dview + 2views of the editor" its own application?
And have an other one with GTK where I use the controls, like "create new box"
and such.
The 2 seperate applications could communicate throught sockets.. (using
SDLNet to make its protable .. )
Does this sound like a viable plan?
Should I make the "3dview + 2views of the editor" its own application?
And have an other one with GTK where I use the controls, like "create new box"
and such.
The 2 seperate applications could communicate throught sockets.. (using
SDLNet to make its protable .. )
Does this sound like a viable plan?
GTK is a good API and with gtkmm it is very convenient to use with C++ too but I've heard it suffers from some stability problems on Windows. Personally I've never run into them but many people have complained. An alternative (if you use C++) might be wxWidgets. It has a built-in OpenGL widget (wxGLCanvas).
In fact, gtk has a widget for embedding GL in a window.
Google for gtkglarea.
Although this won't necessarily apply to you, but when I coded my editor I tried gtk first, but I didn't like it. Although this might just be me, I found its windows implementation pretty damn buggy. I then moved to wxwidgets (then wxwindows) and never looked back.
It's up to you though, and it probably depends on your codebase. One thing I miss about gtk is its nice procedural model. wxwidgets is hardcore OOP, although it's possible to work around that.
edit: I just noticed Clash Rocker's link to gtkglext. I seem to remember it being more up to date than gtkglarea so ignore my advice :)
- baldurk
Google for gtkglarea.
Although this won't necessarily apply to you, but when I coded my editor I tried gtk first, but I didn't like it. Although this might just be me, I found its windows implementation pretty damn buggy. I then moved to wxwidgets (then wxwindows) and never looked back.
It's up to you though, and it probably depends on your codebase. One thing I miss about gtk is its nice procedural model. wxwidgets is hardcore OOP, although it's possible to work around that.
edit: I just noticed Clash Rocker's link to gtkglext. I seem to remember it being more up to date than gtkglarea so ignore my advice :)
- baldurk
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