Announcing new app framework

[Bill Baxter]

I think OpenVG is supposed to be released sometime around the end of the 
year.  And it is likely to be supported by vendors.  Don't know how long 
that will take, but if you have time, it may be worth waiting for that.

Anyway, the antialiasing situation in OpenGL is very disappointing as 
far as high-quality 2D output is concerned.

Check out Amanith, which is a good demo of the quality you can hope to 
get out of current OpenGL.
For non-HW accel there the antigrain geometry library (AGG), which does 
have quite good quality.

--bb

freeagle wrote:
> Jeff  wrote / napísal(a):
> 
>> freeagle wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I started to work on a cross-platform app framework based 
>>> around an OpenGL GUI library. You can find more info at 
>>> http://freedev.yweb.sk/projects/libraries/universal/info.html
>>>
>>> freeagle
>>
>>
>> I've been wondering why OpenGL is so appealing to people for this sort 
>> of thing. Wouldn't Cairo be more suitable (since OpenGL could then be 
>> used as desired, but not strictly required), especially considering 
>> the - then relatively easy - integration of other handy libraries like 
>> Pango?
> 
> 
> Oh, sry, I forgot to answer you first question. Why OpenGL? purpose of 
> these libs is to use hardware acceleration whereever possible and offer 
> the same API regardless of the underlaying platform. There are only two 
> fully-featured graphics APIs that use modern hardware for render 
> acceleration - Direct3D and OpenGL. D3D is only for Windows platform. I 
> think this leaves no other option than OpenGL.
> 
> freeagle