Andy Ross writes: > > Norman wrote: > > Out of curiosity what can't you do today that would make FlightGear > > better because we are using GLUT that you would do differently today > > if we were using SDL and what exactly is it that would make FGFS > > better. > > Off the top of my head: > > + Build out of the box on Fedora, which no longer ships glut.
I wonder who sparked that :-) > > + Switch video modes on an XFree86/Xorg server, which has supported > this capability for 4+ years but have never had a complete "game > mode" glut port written. > > + Be able to handle stuff like "Shift-3" instead of "#", so the > Europeans don't think our key mappings are on drugs. why not use freeglut ? FWIW I would be much more excited about this if we were switching to a library designed for highend simulations such as OpenProducer which by the way also has a portable threading library OpenThreads Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
