From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA28966; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA28940 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.141]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3M6rTT12149 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from beertje.william.bogus (williamc.xs4all.nl [213.84.56.92]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g3M6rTws011276; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from williamc@localhost) by beertje.william.bogus (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g3M6rvY01035; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:57 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: beertje.william.bogus: williamc set sender to williamc@paneris.org using -f From: William Chesters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15555.45957.601630.446720@beertje.william.bogus> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:53:57 +0200 (CEST) To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCamlSDL In-Reply-To: <3CC34396.9000909@ozemail.com.au> References: <20020419110629.C30809@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> <001101c1e7bd$2a7ffa70$58a4b9c2@MADOKA> <20020419112730.D30809@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> <3CC12F9C.60508@ozemail.com.au> <20020420122359.D3A177FB5@lobus.fungible.com> <3CC34396.9000909@ozemail.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk John Max Skaller writes: > Tim Freeman wrote: > >I don't get it. Tk is about 2D graphics, and OpenGL is about > >accelerated 3d graphics. Your question presupposes that we have a > >choice between one and the other, but I can't think of any > >applications for which that is true. > > Gee, I always though 2D was a subspace of 3D... Yes, at work we use OpenGL also for 2D stuff, because it's just nicer to work with than X/Motif. In principle it works fine. In practice it took the people working on it (not me, thankfully) a very long time to iron out the stability problems---our s/w would completely take out not only Linux but also Solaris (on stock Sun hardware!), apparently because of raciness if the user had a lot of OGL windows open. Basically the implementations appeared to be fully mature only in the common, single-3D-window usage ... however things do appear to have settled down now. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners