[Chicken-hackers] Re: [Chicken-users] inventory of community skills

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> > > But you're saying I'm going to have
> > > trouble with mouse events, right?
> >
> > I'd call it gruntwork rather than trouble.  Mouse events on everyone's
> > pet OS is a boring problem.  Plenty of OpenGL windowing toolkits have
> > dealt with it in some way.  But there's a plethora of such toolkits out
> > there, without any one of them clearly being a preferred solution.  To
>
> FWIW I see that glut:MouseFunc and glut:MotionFunc are working well
> enough with the glut egg.  

But GLUT is the most ancient dead and buried code out there.  It's not 
under open source license and the last version of it belongs in a 
crypt.  There are alternatives such as FreeGLUT which are more modern, 
but I won't vouch for FreeGLUT.  Didn't look like that active of a 
project, last I checked.  FLTK seemed to have much more recent 
development behind it.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every