Re: [Update REQ 5221]: Geomview and OpenGL

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

>	I was just wondering if there are any plans to include support
>for OpenGL in future versions of Geomview?  As I understand it the
>SGI version uses GL, but that all of the other versions (except
>for the NeXT version) just use Xlib calls.  It would seem that this
>would give a wider range of people (for example, us, a mainly DEC house :-)
>the ability to use our hardware renderers and not have to do everything
>in software.  

It's definitely something we've thought about, and clearly will have
to do eventually since even SGI will stop supporting oldstyle GL at
some point. Unfortunately given limited resources there's not
currently a timeline. Inquiries like yours do help push it up the
priority list.

Tamara Munzner		The Geometry Center	     ((555) 555-5555
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