Hallo, chris clepper hat gesagt: // chris clepper wrote:
The main complaint is speed and looks right? Well, how about pulling out all the stops and going full on 3D rendering using OpenGL via GLUT or SDL? That would shut people the hell up about both. You want to see that array update at hundreds of FPS? Not a problem. You want glowing, translucent baubles in your patch? Sure go right ahead.
GLUT and SDL are highly portable, work on most platforms, and handle windowing, drawing, input devices and events. What more could you want? Oh yeah, you have a crappy video card... tough!!
I'm against basing the whole GUI on OpenGL, and this is, because OpenGL is not as portable as it seems. For example, I still do not have OpenGL running hardware-accelerated on my Linux laptop.
So it would be better to use a toolkit, that allows OpenGL to be easily embedded, but doesn't require OGL. SDL would be okay as would be wxWindows, Qt or Gtk.
I'm also thinking of another approach: The jMax folks are in the process of porting the GUI part to wxPython, and they already made some interesting progress in this area. How about joining forces with them and try to reuse the relevant parts of pyMax as GUI for Pd?
ciao
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