On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:01 +1100, John Pye wrote: > Hi all > > Can anyone offer any comments on the use of COIN-3D (Open Inventor) with > GTK and/or GtkGLExt? I am considering using COIN-3D for some graphics > stuff but most of my GUI programming so far has been with GTK, so if I > can use COIN-3D along with GTK then I would be able to avoid needing to > learn Qt. The short answer is: Inventor and/or Coin + Gtk/GtkGLExt don't go along very well.
The easiest way to getting started probably is to connect Coin and/or Inventor directly, using an approach similar to old gtkglarea and its Motif master (libGLw, GlwDrawA/GlwMDrawA widgets) it had been trying to mimic had done. There exist several attempts to port and/or clone InventorXt (SGI original) to Gtk, but to my knowledge non of them has ever reached a shape deserving to be called "ready to use". SIM's SoGtk had been one of them. > Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated. There seem to be some > out-of-date bindings from COIN-3D to GTK, but all the information seems > a bit out of date. Yes, SIM's SoGtk is more or less dead. They stopped active development several years ago due to "lack of interest", as they said. I had been contributing to SoGtk at that time, but stopped contributing at the very point SIM changed Coin's license to GPL/QPL (it had been LGPL before), to streamline its license with other TrollTech products (SIM is owned by TrollTech). Ralf _______________________________________________ gtkglext-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkglext-list
