[cells-gtk-devel] Re: GUI programming in CL ..
Peter Hildebrandt
peter.hildebrandt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 13:08:17 UTC 2008
Hi Dimitri,
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:40:13 +0100, Dmitri Hrapof <hrapof at common-lisp.ru>
wrote:
> Happy New Year!
Same to you!
> I thought that maybe my limited experience would be of interest...
> I've been successfully using OpenGL with cells-gtk and clg for the last
> two years (using GtkGlExt and GtkDrawingArea) for real-time data
> visualization. GtkGlExt was recently abandoned but is mantained again
> now AFAIK.
Wow, that sounds good. I believed there must be someone out there who has
done that before, but I could not persuade google to point me in the right
direction. Thanks so much for sharing your experience.
> I also use Cairo together with OpenGL in order to draw antialiased
> rotated Unicode text of different font sizes. Unfortunately, I do not
> call Cairo and OpenGL functions to draw on the same surface, instead I
> create a texture with Cairo and display it with OpenGL.
I have never tried this. What is the reason you cannot mix the two? Does
it not work, or is it some issue with the bindings?
> I have to confess I switched from cells-gtk to clg for the new version
> of my program as the latter let me use glade to build my UI (and, to
> tell the truth, I used only CFFI part of cells-gtk).
If you're only using the CFFI part, this is the sensible thing to do.
AFAICT clg is far more complete than cells-gtk. I suppose the focus of
cells-gtk is a different one.
Maybe one day we will build cells-gtk on the bindings of clg?
> SBCL is the Lisp used for this project.
> I made a small CFFI binding for GtkGlExt:
> http://www.common-lisp.ru/gtkgl.asd
> http://www.common-lisp.ru/gtk-gl-ext.lisp
Again, thanks for sharing this. This will save me from reinventing the
wheel here. Would it be ok for you if I use your bindings to integrate a
GLDrawingArea widget in cells-gtk?
Cheers,
Peter
> Sincerely yours,
> Dmitri
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