custom drawing with gktd?

Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 2 07:49:25 PDT 2017


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


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