Forum regular JavaCoolDude has kindly donated his own GUI framework for poeple to use, the relivent thread on it can be found here

OpenGL(R) is the software interface for graphics hardware that allows graphics programmers to produce high-quality color images of 3D objects. OpenGL is a rendering only, vendor neutral API providing 2D and 3D graphics functions, including modelling, transformations, color, lighting, smooth shading, as well as advanced features like texture mapping, NURBS, fog, alpha blending and motion blur. OpenGL works in both immediate and retained (display list) graphics modes.

And, you find that after successful ssh authentication you get the error message remote: abort: repository path/to/repo not found! , then you need to know the following: Mercurial's remote repository syntax differs from syntax of other well known programs such as rsync, cvs - both of which use a : character to delimit USER@REMOTE from the path component (/path/to/repo).

OpenGL is now available from many sources and is included with many popular Linux distributions. Most vendors (including SGI) pre-bundle accelerated OpenGL drivers with their systems; some (nVidia, ATI, et al) have accelerated drivers available on their web sites; and other vendors (3dfx, Matrox, ATI, etc) use drivers created by the DRI Project or the Utah-GLX Project. Which implementation of OpenGL to choose is ultimately dependent upon the type of graphics card you have.

The Windows operating systems include high-performance 3D graphics capabilities as a native part of the operating system using the OpenGL API. It was announced at MacWorld on January 5, 1999, that Apple Computer, Inc. has licensed OpenGL, and will incorporate OpenGL into future versions of the Macintosh® operating system, starting with the next release of Mac OS 8 and the first release of Mac OS X. Mesa (see www.mesa3d.org) is an implementation of OpenGL written for Linux systems.

The OpenGL ARB is the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. It is an independent consortium, formed in 1992, that governs the OpenGL specification.

The fastest method is to use bitmap fonts. Typically you would create a greyscale texture which includes all of the letters on a black background, aligned in order of their ASCII codes. You'd then load the texture into your program as a 4 channel image (with each channel a duplicate of the first). Each letter requires texture coordinates, so you'd need to store these in a structure of some sort.

You have to write your own. OpenGL is a graphics library, it doesn't do collision detection. Neither does it do audio, wash dishes, unblock drains, or remove stubborn stains from carpets. As such, questions relating to collision detection should be asked in Math and Physics.

Noisecrime has supplied a list of locations people might find some usefull OpenGL Shading Language tutorials; Yes it does, the more you have the more work the driver and graphics card is having todo, however some state changes cost less than others, as such the type of state change tends to matter more as you shouldnt be doing redundant changes anyway.

Work has reputedly (January 1996) started on porting a Tcl/Tk GUI builder known as SpecTcl for use with Perl/Tk. For the Tcl/Tk SpecTcl kit see: ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/SpecTcl-*.tar.[gz|Z] and address questions about SpecTcl to <spectcl@tcl.eng.sun.com>. In <news:ANDREAS.96Mar24234521@marvin.berlin.de> Andreas Koschinsky <marvin@logware.

The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x or GTK 2.0 (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored in PNG format, so GTK, libpng (and their devel stuff, usually called gtk-dev and libpng-dev) has to be installed. You can build it by specifying --enable-gui during ./configure. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to execute the gmplayer binary. MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if you want to use the GUI. See the download page.

Two clients are actively being maintained for Unix/X11. The default client uses the GTK+ windowing toolkit. The original client is based on the Athena widget set ('Xaw'), which is fast and very widely available, but many users find it old-fashioned. The client can also be compiled to use Xaw3d. New features are sometimes implemented in the GTK+ version only, but the Xaw one still has some advantages.

You can't. One hopes that The MathWorks will include this often-requested feature in a future, but there is no guarantee. Related to this, changing the stacking order of your GUI elements might allow you to set the tab order, but this seems to not always work. GUIDE in MATLAB version >= 6.5 includes a Tab Order Editor, which does a better job at this.

Contact an SGI sales representative. In the United States, call SGI direct toll-free at (800) 800-7441. If you are outside the U.S.A., contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in your area.

The OpenGL Performance Characterization (OPC) project subgroup of the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) group manages two benchmarks. viewperf which tests performance of viewsets representative of different real-world workloads, and GLperf which tests the performance of low-level primitive operations such as drawing triangle strips and copying pixels. OPC maintains an independent Web site that describes the benchmarks in more detail and summarizes results reported by OpenGL vendors.

One user has reported successfully using with OpenGL. If you are interested in contributing code that adds OpenGL support to Amulet, wewould be most happy to make it available to other Amulet users.

OpenGL is supported by many hardware and software vendors. As of September, 1995, OpenGL has been licensed to:

The OpenGL Programming Guide (The red book) version 1.1 ( pdf version ): A comprehensive guide to using OpenGL The OpenGL extension registry : For the latest OpenGL extension specifications and the essential glExt.h header file.

Although the current OpenGL version is 1.5 (as of 2004/03/29) , and this has been implemented by all major hardware manufacturers, Microsoft has only released OpenGL32.dll and OpenGl32.lib files corresponding to version OpenGL 1.1. In order to use newer core functions or any OpenGL extensions, you have to link the functions you want manually. To do this, download the latest glext.h from SGI.com which includes typedefs for all registered extension functions. After including glext.

Point to the chart and press the middle mouse button. Hold the button and drag to the desired position. You can also move the legend and the title of the chart in the same way.

OpenGL currently provides no services for printing. The OpenGL ARB has discussed a GLS stream protocol, which would enable a more common interface for printing, but for now, printing is only accomplished by system-specific means. On a Microsoft Windows platform, ALT-PrintScreen copies the active window to the clipboard. (To copy the entire screen, make the desktop active by clicking on it, then use ALT-PrintScreen.

Yes, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers contains OpenGL header files, libraries, and DLLs. In addition, we also offer the Hummingbird OpenGL Development Option for those customers who want to use Hummingbird's Exceed X server and Exceed 3D for OpenGL.

OpenGL Performer is a powerful and comprehensive programming interface for developers creating real-time visual simulation and other performance-oriented 3D graphics applications. It simplifies development of complex applications used for visual simulation, manufacturing, simulation-based design, virtual reality, scientific visualization, interactive entertainment, broadcast video, architectural walk-through, and computer-aided design.