Implement OpenGL context.

[jimijimi]

Please consider adding OpenGL support. This would be a fantastic addition to Shoes.

[PragTob]

Hi there,

thanks for your suggestion. I just checked and it seems to be possible with SWT. However, this is very far down the road as we got lots of other stuff to tackle first. Also, my graphics etc. knowledge is very limited - so I'd need to learn about openGL first ;) And I dunno if the others got any knowledge here.

Also consider http://stackoverflow.com/questions/66446/what-is-the-best-opengl-java-binding

That said, if someone wants to take a stab at this they are welcome. I'd mark it experimental, though :)

Tobi

edit: JOGL seems to be the way to go

[KCErb]

I'll just chime in and say: great idea!

Over the next year or two I'll be working heavily with and helping develop a ruby openCL FFI for a different project. I'm sure that as I learn about FFIs and high performance computing I'll be learning ways to tie it into Shoes.

But that will be down the road and I don't know to what extent knowledge about openCL will translate to openGL. So I definitely encourage those interested to dive in and play around, especially since it looks like quite a bit of the heavy lifting has been done in JOGL as @PragTob suggested.

[metacritical]

Any updates on this?

[PragTob]

Nope work on the project is mostly dormant :)