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 RAA28761; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA28773 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3NFAKv02418 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id g3NFA87R020057 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT); Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:08 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with UUCP id g3NFA11v020034; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:10:01 +0200 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from localhost (oliver@localhost) by first.in-berlin.de (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00668; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:50:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:50:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Oliver Bandel To: John Max Skaller cc: Tim Freeman , willb@cs.wisc.edu, stf@apl.it, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCamlSDL In-Reply-To: <3CC34396.9000909@ozemail.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, John Max Skaller wrote: > Tim Freeman wrote: > > >Will Benton allegedly wrote: > > > >> 2. O'Caml bindings are already available for OpenGL. > >> > > > >From: John Max Skaller > > > >>In that case, why are we sticking with Tk? > >> > > > >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... Tk is designed for interactive GUI-Applications. And, yes, it provides graphical output with the canvas-widget. But I think that OpenGL is designed for having 3D-animations and similar stuff, and not to put buttons on the screen, on which the user can click. And I think you have to reinvent the "button-wheel" in OpenGL. Maybe it would be a good idea to marriage OpenGL and Tk, so that Tk provides easy GUI-design and OpenGL provides powerful 3D-capabilities. Maybe there should be a GUI-Lib for OpenGL, or a 3D-canvas- widget for Tk (OpenGL-canvas for Tk). Ciao, Oliver ------------------- 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