On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 03:52:01PM +0000, Nick wrote: > > I disagree, presuming I understood you correctly. You just > draw stuff straight into an OpenGL buffer. Or get your > toolkit to do that. How is this not a reasonable thing to > do?
Because it's the same attitude that makes X11 and terminal interfaces suck. "Just draw stuff straight into {Xlib, terminal}. Or get {ncurses, gtk, qt, sdl, fltk, tk, whatever} to do that." What you wind up with is either lowest-common-denominator shit like ncurses, which makes everything suck, or you get little qt/gtk circlejerks, which makes everything suck in different ways, or else you get both, and wxwidgets is possibly the suckest of them all.