Re: Input Library

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 Nathi-huesken@gmx.de wrote:

>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:51:30PM +0200, Nathi-huesken@gmx.de wrote:
>> 
>> > For Graphics I use OpenGL and for Sound I use OpenAL.
>> 
>> When using OpenGL you should get the user input from the same place you
>> got the OpenGL rendering context.
>> If you created the context with glX you should get the input from Xlib.
>> If you created the context with glut you should get the input from glut.
>> If you created the context with SDL you should get the input from SDL.
>> Etc.
>
>OK, I will use OpenGL and I think I will use glX (sounds best to me). But
>where can I find a tutorial or an explaining example of glX/Xlib? (as you can
>see, I have not done any programming under Linux yet) ;)

Ugh, why reinvent the wheel again. Why not just go with SDL, GLUT or Plib
like the rest of the world? You'll most likely end up with a nonportable
buggy mess, unless you're ready to spend *a lot* of time on that (more or
less useless) part of your project.

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