I have a opengl application which simply draws many geomatrical shapes,i want to use web page as background of my application so that i can draw circles or any shapes over this web pages

Thanks for replies but can u guys give me any exact idea to how to include webpages as a background in my opengl application

Quote:Original post by soumya_iiitc
Thanks for replies but can u guys give me any exact idea to how to include webpages as a background in my opengl application

It is a large task which requires many components, and the problem solving to connect them. This is known as programming. The other posts have pointed you to two options for components to use. To get more detailed, they'd basically have to do the programming for you. If you want somebody to do the programming for you, I suggest drawing up your list of requisites and making a request in the Help Wanted forums (note: there is a manditory template for posting there, I suggest you read the relevant sticky if you post there).

If you have specific questions about specific steps, you can of course post to the other forums about these. But such an overarching request as you've given isn't just asking specific questions -- it's asking us to do a large bulk of what constitutes programming, which most won't do without getting paid for it.

Hi Monkey ,

I am not looking for any kind of code , if any body give a proper direction to this it will be really help full.


I hope this forum will be ablw to give a good idea or a definite path to solve my problem.


Thanks,
Soumyadipta De

Quote:Original post by soumya_iiitc
I am not looking for any kind of code , if any body give a proper direction to this it will be really help full.
I hope this forum will be ablw to give a good idea or a definite path to solve my problem.

They *did* give you a definite direction; you are going to need to learn how to do research. I'll give a little more detail to set you on the path:

1) get the rendering engine from the firefox project (google around for how to get the source code; it's an open source project so this should be easy)
2) read the documentation and study the code so that you understand how it works
3) add that engine to your openGL project
4) query a webpage and use the rendering engine to render the page to a texture
5) apply that texture to some geometry in your openGL world
6) to get the webpage to work you'll need to implement your own user input system to detect where the user is clicking/typing

Things you have to know before being able to accomplish this project:

a) network programming -> you should already be able to query a webpage and get the html in a little console app.
b) graphics programming -> you should already know how to make an openGL world (without looking at a tutorial)
c) programming in general -> you're going to need to be able to look at the firefox source code, understand the documentation and reverse engineer it enough to be able to add it to your own code

-me

[Edited by - Palidine on May 9, 2007 12:13:48 PM]