On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:59:06PM +0000, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> > Ponder. I suppose GTK does work on windows now too....anyone used
> > gtkglarea on windows ?
> Ack.. to quote you "Stop that now..." what's the problem with using
> the local API's?... damn people wanting to rewrite UNIX libraries
> under windows... bad enough windows people wondering why NT threads
> don't work under posix!
'Cos I want to write a server based game, with a portable client, so it's
either Glut with no interface, gtkglarea with a GTK interface, or OpenGL
Java, with a Swing interface.
Checkout http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~valen/xenocide.html for some
ruminations.
> Any way, AFAIK there is quite a bit of support for speedy graphics in Java,
> there is a Java graphics demo page out there somewhere (think
> Second Reality done in Java!)
Hmm. fattening. Do they give source ? ;)
Kate
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