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digitalmars.D.learn - custom drawing with gktd?

reply Johnson Jones <JJ Dynomite.com> writes:
I have a need to draw custom objects with gtkD, is this possible? 
I see that with drawing area one can use cario, and it seems that 
gtkD supports this. I'd rather use openGL if possible. I see 
there is a gtkDGL but no reference to how to use it.

I need pretty simple drawing stuff... lines, icons, maybe 
images(which, I guess, I'll have to use an external lib to load 
the images).

Thanks.
Aug 01 2017
parent reply Mike Wey <mike-wey example.com> writes:
On 02-08-17 08:35, Johnson Jones wrote:
 I have a need to draw custom objects with gtkD, is this possible? I see 
 that with drawing area one can use cario, and it seems that gtkD 
 supports this. I'd rather use openGL if possible. I see there is a 
 gtkDGL but no reference to how to use it.
 
 I need pretty simple drawing stuff... lines, icons, maybe images(which, 
 I guess, I'll have to use an external lib to load the images).
 
 Thanks.
For openGL it would be better to use gtk.GLArea, which is included in gtk since 3.16. You can use the GLCore demo as an example: https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/blob/master/demos/gl/core/CoreGL.d GtkDGL wraps gtkglext3 which is currently not maintained, and no longer has any binaries available. -- Mike Wey
Aug 02 2017
parent Johnson Jones <JJ Dynomite.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 14:49:25 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
 On 02-08-17 08:35, Johnson Jones wrote:
 I have a need to draw custom objects with gtkD, is this 
 possible? I see that with drawing area one can use cario, and 
 it seems that gtkD supports this. I'd rather use openGL if 
 possible. I see there is a gtkDGL but no reference to how to 
 use it.
 
 I need pretty simple drawing stuff... lines, icons, maybe 
 images(which, I guess, I'll have to use an external lib to 
 load the images).
 
 Thanks.
For openGL it would be better to use gtk.GLArea, which is included in gtk since 3.16. You can use the GLCore demo as an example: https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/blob/master/demos/gl/core/CoreGL.d GtkDGL wraps gtkglext3 which is currently not maintained, and no longer has any binaries available.
Thanks, I'll try it.
Aug 02 2017