GTK+ 3.16's New GtkGLArea Widget Gets Improved

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GTK+ 3.16's New GtkGLArea Widget Gets Improved

31 October 2014, 12:00 AM

Phoronix: GTK+ 3.16's New GtkGLArea Widget Gets Improved

Earlier this month GTK+ 3.16 development code gained native OpenGL support. This GTK+ OpenGL support involved adding support for wrapping an OpenGL context for native windows with GLX on X11 and EGL on Wayland to use OpenGL to paint everything. A GtkGLArea widget was also added for providing OpenGL drawing access within GTK+ applications. The GtkGLArea has already seen some more improvements to better GTK's OpenGL support...

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31 October 2014, 08:19 AM

Does the profile property allows for higher contexts (OpenGL 3.3, OpenGL 4.x) and OpenGL ES context creation?
If not those features should definitely be added.
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