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+ <meta name="description" content="The downloads page">
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+<center><img SRC="freeglut_logo.png" ALT="The freeglut logo" height=106 width=314></center>
+
+<center><dt><i><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size=+1>
+I upload it, you download it. That's the ying-yang nature of the Buddha.
+</font></font></i></dt></center>
+
+<center><table WIDTH="620"><tr><td><hr WIDTH="100%">
+
+<p><i>January the 16th, 2000</i>
+<p>Here is a list of files you can download:
+<p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+ <a href="freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-04.tar.gz">
+ freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-04.tar.gz</a> (approx. 210kB)
+<li>
+ <a href="freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-06.tar.gz">
+ freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-06.tar.gz</a> (approx. 220kB)
+<li>
+ <a href="freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-09.tar.gz">
+ freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-09.tar.gz</a> (approx. 230kB)
+<li>
+ <a href="freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-16.tar.gz">
+ freeglut-1.3-alpha-2000-01-16.tar.gz</a> (approx. 230kB)
+</ul>
+
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+ <meta name="description" content="A bit about me and the freeglut project">
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+<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EF" vlink="#51188E" alink="#FF0000">
+
+<center><img SRC="freeglut_logo.png" ALT="The freeglut logo" height=106 width=314></center>
+
+<center><dt><i><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size=+1>
+I am best at what I do worst and for this gift I feel blessed...
+</font></font></i></dt></center>
+
+<center><table WIDTH="620"><tr><td><hr WIDTH="100%">
+
+<p><i>January the 2nd, 2000</i>
+
+<p>The alpha version has been released yesterday. Today I have been busy with moving
+the project site to the <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>. As for
+now there will be the web site available and I will give it a try to set up the
+freeglut mailing lists. There will be no CVS access available for now (my dialup
+internet connection sucks so badly that I wouldn't be able to work on the project).
+After I am done with that, I will try announcing the project on www.opengl.org.
+
+<p>Of other things, there has been rumours floating round the routers and hubs about
+Mark Kilgard changing the GLUT's license, but this is unconfirmed. It would be really
+cool if he did so, there's no better motivation to work than a bit of sound competition.
+As for me, I already put too much work into the freeglut project to terminate it just
+now. We'll see what happens next.
+
+<p><i>January the 4th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>Ho-ho-ho. Freeglut-1.3 works fine with `Tux the Penguin and the Quest for Herring'.
+At least that's what Steve Baker, the author, says. Not only that, Steve has provided
+us with the joystick code (from his great PLIB project) and numerous hints and tips
+about making freeglut more useful (I will try to put the results of our discussion
+on the <a href="structure.html">structure page</a>).
+
+<p>As for other issues -- I promise I will start the Win32 port this weekend.
+BTW. -- is there a decent cross compiler for Linux that generates Win32 executables,
+so that I don't have to use windows for development? And what about Wine OpenGL
+support?
+
+<p>The package is now some 40kB smaller than the previous one. Did some general
+clean ups, removed unnecessary configure scripts in the genfonts directory,
+the configure cahce, the Makefiles and so on. Also, I have started introducing
+the new internal structure, as described <a href="structure.html">here</a>.
+
+<p><i>January the 6th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>The missing glutInit() issue seems to be solved. Chris Purnell (fxGLUT author) says
+that the GLUT window and menu creation functions call glutInit() if the caller didn't
+do that before.
+
+<p>The enumerations for GLUT_KEY_UP and GLUT_KEY_RIGHT were accidentally swapped.
+They should be OK now. Hope the rest is OK :)
+
+<p>Added two new API calls to freeglut-1.3 -- glutBitmapHeight() and glutStrokeHeight(),
+as suggested by Steve Baker. This won't break the GLUT compatibility a lot, and I've
+heard it can be useful. Here you go.
+
+<p>The <a href="structure.html">structure</a> plans page has been updated. The numerous
+feature hints from opengl-gamedev-l readers have been added.
+
+<p>Somebody (Chris?) hinted me that the stroke fonts can be found in the XFree86
+sources. I browsed through it and -- presto. Now I only need to define the stroke fonts
+structure (should be very similiar to bitmapped one) and write quite a simple parser.
+
+<p>I've spent the (late) evening doing the init display string parsing and making
+my logics classes homework :) Both is harder than I primarily thought, but fortunately
+for me I can commit errors in one of those tasks. Guess which one? Argh. :)
+
+<p><i>January the 8th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>First of all, both the missing glutInit() and glutGet(GLUT_WINDOW_[X|Y]) issues are
+fixed now. The first problem was solved thanks to Chris Purnell, who showed me the way
+GLUT dealt with the problem. Good for me there's someone who reads it's source code (I
+just felt it would be unfair for me to do so :D). The second problem was solved by
+adding a XMoveWindow call just after the window creation and initial mapping. This is
+strange. Maybe one of the Xlib calls between the creation and mapping spoiled the
+window's coordinates?
+
+<p>This makes even more GLUT tests work fine. The tests can be found in any decent
+GLUT 3.7 distribution. Following tests produce a FAIL message: test18.c (some layer
+issues), test19.c (see the GLUT_NORMAL_DAMAGED issue on the progress page), test22.c
+(window stacking/visibilty problems), test23.c (glutInitDisplayString() is unfinished),
+test25.c (the freeglut fonts differ a bit from GLUT's), test28.c (-iconic handling
+is missing(?)). Gee :)
+
+<p>I've spent another hour doing the glutInitDisplayString(), but it still is far from
+being complete. And I've also started gathering information on doing the game mode
+stuff. The video mode enumeration in both cases will be painful.
+
+<p>There is a big issue with the window contents redrawing. Right now, it is forced
+every time there are no events pending in the main loop. I know it's wrong, but it
+without such an approach some of the test programs freeze soon after starting. Could
+someone peer-review the main loop code please?
+
+<p>I have decided to start the Win32 port this weekend. As for now, the code compiles
+under vc++5.0. I will start making it work as soon as I download the pthreads library
+and the newest version of GLib for Windows. It was quite a good idea to start the port,
+as the Microsoft's compiler generates much more warnings and I had quite a few things
+fixed for free.
+
+<p><i>January the 9th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>Doing the Win32 port all the day... Actually, there is enough code to make it work,
+however I am sure only of that it compiles (more or less). I need to download the
+pthreads-win32 library to get the GLib working first, and somehow I was unable to
+do it during the weekend. Once again -- the Win32 port does not work yet. Oh, and
+I need adding the __declspec(dllexport) thing...
+
+<p>After it starts working, I'll have to clean up the code a bit, I guess...
+
+<p><i>January the 10th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>Here I am at three o'clock am, half-awake, uploading and downloading things for
+freeglut. I never thought I'd be able to force myself getting up that early :)
+
+<p><i>January the 16th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>Both the flu and a terrible feeling about the dialup bills made me slow down
+a bit, the internet activity I mean :). But here I am again uploading the latest
+snapshot. The biggest news about it is the Win32 port working, with nearly all
+features you can find in the X11 version implemented (still, it needs some debugging).
+For the Unix port, game mode support (loosely based on SDL source code posted at Neal
+Tringham's www.pseudonymz.demon.co.uk) and numerous bug fixes have been introduced.
+
+<p>In order to compile the Win32 version, you'll need pthreads-win32 library (see
+sourceware.cygnus.org), the GLib-1.2.x (www.gtk.org, I've been using the 1.2.6),
+a working native compiler (Microsoft VisualC++ 5.0 in my case), and a bit of patience.
+See the project files I've supplied for some definitions needed (FREEGLUT_LIBRARY_BUILD
+needs to be declared when building the DLL), and don't forget freeglut joystick code
+is making use of Win32 multimedia extensions (link against winmm.lib).
+
+<p>Be prepared to meet the fact Mesa 3.1 (or at least my compilation) doesn't work very
+well with this snapshot -- something's messed up when changing WGL contexts. This is
+really strange, as the Microsoft's OpenGL works pretty fine, as does Dominik Behr's
+miniGL thing. The assumption is that I've taken some approach that somehow is valid
+with Microsoft's drivers, but is not OpenGL conformant. Could anyone check this out
+please?
+
+<p>My plan for next week is to add some lesser features missing, and start learning
+maths as the session at my university is coming in really fast :) This way or another,
+expect the next release not any sooner than next weekend (given that no nasty bugs get
+digged out).
+
+<p>Argh. Don't be surprised if the code doesn't compile under X-11 other than XFree86.
+It could fail when trying to include the X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h include header,
+in that case just comment out that inclusion line (found in freeglut_internal.h).
+Is there any intelligent way to detect the existence of an include header, and if
+it's autoconf to be the answer, how to use it?
+
+<br><br><a href="index.html"><i>Back to the main page</i></a>
+
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+<head>
+<title>The freeglut project</title>
+</head>
+<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EF" vlink="#51188E" alink="#FF0000">
+
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td>
+
+<center><img SRC="freeglut_logo.png" ALT="The freeglut logo"></center>
+<center><i><font size=+1> The free OpenGL utility toolkit </font></i></center>
+
+</td>
+<td>
+
+<center><a href="http://sourceforge.net">
+<img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=0&type=1" border="0">
+</a></center><br>
+<center><i>Hosted at SourceForge</i></center>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>What</font></b>
+<p>
+freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility
+Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard
+to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'.
+Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications
+because it is simple, universally available and highly portable.
+<p>
+GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage
+windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and
+also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
+<p>
+freeglut is released under the X-Consortium license.
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>Why</font></b>
+<p>
+The original GLUT library seems to have been abandoned with the most
+recent version (3.7) dating back to August 1998. It's license does
+not allow anyone to distribute modified the library code. This would
+be OK, if not for the fact that GLUT is getting old and really needs
+improvement. Also, GLUT's license is incompatible with some software
+distributions (eg Xfree86).
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>Who</font></b>
+<p>
+freeglut was originally written by Pawel W. Olszta with contributions
+from Andreas Umbach and Steve Baker. Steve is now the official
+owner/maintainer of freeglut.
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>When</font></b>
+<p>
+Pawel started freeglut development on December 1st, 1999.
+The project is now a virtually 100% replacement for the original
+GLUT with only a few departures (such as the abandonment of SGI-specific
+features such as the Dials&Buttons box and Dynamic Video Resolution).
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>Downloads</font></b>
+<p>
+Check the <a href="download.html">
+downloads page</a> for the latest release.
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>Support</font></b>
+<p>
+Send freeglut related questions to the appropriate freeglut mailing list:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="mailto:freeglut-developer@lists.sourceforge.net">freeglut-developer</a>,
+<li><a href="mailto:freeglut-announce@lists.sourceforge.net">freeglut-announce</a> and
+<li><a href="mailto:freeglut-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net">freeglut-bugs</a>.
+</ul>
+You can subscribe to them via the
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1032">
+SourceForge project interface</a>.
+<p>
+
+<li><b><font size=+2>Documentation</font></b>
+<p>
+I believe this is enough for a short introduction.
+If you are not tired of reading yet, check out the
+<a href="freeglut.html">freeglut project log</a>. Here you will find the
+yet-to-be-introduced new project <a href="structure.html">structure
+description</a>. Finally, here you will find the latest
+<a href="progress.html">work progress report</a>. Since freeglut is
+a re-implementation of the original GLUT API, you can find API
+documentation at <A HREF="http://www.opengl.org">http://www.opengl.org</A>.
+<p>
+</ul>
+</body></html>
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+<center><img SRC="freeglut_logo.png" ALT="The freeglut logo" height=106 width=314></center>
+<center><dt><i><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size=+1>
+I love reports. They are so full of brightness and hope...
+</font></font></i></dt></center>
+
+<center><table WIDTH="620" ><tr><td><hr WIDTH="100%">
+
+<p><i>January the 16th, 2000</i>
+
+<p>It looks like both X11 and Win32 version have reached a comparable usability stage.
+They are still missing many GLUT API 3 features, but the number is getting smaller and
+smaller every day :)
+
+<br><ul><li><b><font size=+2>input devices</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Keyboard and mouse seems to work well. There is a big guess about the mouse buttons
+count under X11 (always 3) -- I must remember to correct the menu activation code if
+this shows to be invalid.
+
+<p>None of the bizarre input devices found in GLUT API is supported (and probably won't).
+
+<p>Steve Baker contributed the joystick code. It should work fine, as it did in PLIB,
+but I haven't tested it out yet. It might not compile under FreeBSD, as I had to
+convert it from C++ to C and had no possibility to compile it under FreeBSD (the Win32
+version had some typos, but I've already fixed them).
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>pull-down menus</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Pull down menus seem to work. The menu is displayed using OpenGL, so it requires
+the window's contents to be refreshed at an interactive rate, which sometimes does not
+happen. That's why I'll consider adding optional window-system menu navigation later.
+For now -- extensive testing is what I believe should be done with the menu system.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>fonts</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Bitmap fonts support is done. However it would be good to add two more API functions
+-- glutBitmapString() and glutStrokeString(), which should limit the quantity of state
+changes when drawing longer strings.
+
+<p>Good that somebody finally told me where to get the stroke fonts data from... XFree86
+sources contain the ROMAN and MONO ROMAN stroke fonts data. For now stroke fonts are
+rendered using the bitmap font GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13.
+
+<p>What has changed is the way the fonts are specified. I moved to the GLUT's strange
+way of supplying (fake for freeglut) font data pointers instead of some nice enums.
+Hope it helps in achieving the binary compatibility between freeglut and GLUT.
+
+<p>Added two new API calls: glutBitmapHeight() and glutStrokeHeight(), that return
+a font's height. Hope this doesn't break the GLUT compatibility a lot.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>mouse cursor</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Need to have own cursor shapes, so that freeglut can pass them to the windowing
+system, draw them using glBitmap() and/or texture mapping. The cursor shapes are very
+probable to be found in XFree86 sources.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>indexed color mode</font></b></li>
+
+<p>This might work, however I have not tested it yet. glutGetColor/glutSetColor is not
+implemented. Again, looks like a single Xlib call, but there might be some problems
+with the colormap access. Need to switch into indexed color mode some day and check it
+out (does Mesa 3.1 work with indexed color mode?)
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>planes</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Overlays are not supported, but one of the GLUT conformance tests fails due to
+glutLayerGet( GLUT_NORMAL_DAMAGED ) returning FALSE when the window has actually
+been damaged.
+
+<p>Layers would be good for drawing the menus and mouse cursor, as they wouldn't force
+the application redraw to update their state.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>init display string</font></b></li>
+
+<p>I am in middle of the fight with the init display string. It's parsing OK, now it
+would be cool to make it impress some effects on the display...
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>game mode</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Is the game mode string parsed correctly?
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>geometry</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Andreas Umbach has contributed the cube and sphere code. The teapot rendering is
+done using free SGI code. I have also added the cone rendering, however it is missing
+normal vectors (just as Andrea's wireframed cube does). All of the glut*hedron()
+functions await to be implemented.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>obvious bugs</font></b></li>
+
+<br><br><ol>
+<li>
+the visibility/window status function is a conceptual mess. I had to peer into the GLUT
+source code to see what actually happens inside. It helped me a bit, but still one of
+the visibility tests fails. This is probably the reason for which a window covered by
+enlightenment status bar is marked as hidden and does not get redrawn.</li>
+
+<li>
+GLX 1.3 spec states that glXChooseVisual() et consortes are deprecated. Should move to
+glXFBConfig.</li>
+
+<li>
+need to investigate what happens when initial window position is set to (-1,-1). GLUT
+specification says, that the window positioning should be left to the window system.
+And I do not know how to force it do so...</li>
+
+<li>
+I was told it is wrong to have the redisplay forced in the main loop. Is that right?</li>
+
+</ol><br><li><b><font size=+2>not so obvious bugs</font></b></li>
+
+<br><br><ol>
+<li>some of the tests freeze because they do not generate the glutPostRedisplay() call
+every frame. Again, this is somehow handled by GLUT, but I can't see how. And why.
+
+<p>Looks like I've fixed it (or rather hacked it?) by forcing a redisplay every
+frame, but this is no good and kills interactiveness of my console :D</li>
+
+</ol></ul>
+
+<a href="index.html"><i>Back to the main page</i></a>
+
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+ <meta name="description" content="The freeglut project plans">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="freeglut glut OpenGL">
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+<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EF" vlink="#51188E" alink="#FF0000">
+
+<center><img SRC="freeglut_logo.png" ALT="The freeglut logo" height=106 width=314></center>
+<center><dt><i><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size=+1>
+I've got a master plan (to take your API down)...
+</font></font></i></dt></center>
+
+<center><table WIDTH="620" ><tr><td><hr WIDTH="100%">
+
+<p>After that I get the freeglut Windows port working in an acceptable manner and thus
+getting assured that the freeglut internal structure is valid, I will split the project
+into three separate parts, listed below.
+
+<br><ul><li><b><font size=+2>freeglut-common</font></b></li>
+
+<p>The least common denominator between the two freeglut versions. This will probably
+contain most of the internal structure of the toolkit, notably the windows and menu
+hierarchy, and possibly some private helpers.
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>freeglut-1.3</font></b></li>
+
+<p>The GLUT API 3 compatible library. This is what's can be found now in the alpha
+release (apart from the bugs, naturally :D).
+
+<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>freeglut-2.0</font></b></li>
+
+<p>Hopefully this will be what GLUT should have been from the beginning. I will give
+a try to design a much more coherent API than GLUT's, aiming at fast games prototyping.
+<a href="mailto:olszta@sourceforge.net">Suggestions</a> are welcome.</ul>
+
+<br><p>Here's a list of propositions I have received so far. Hopefully this some day
+turns into an API spefication proposal, not just a bunch of meaningless phrases...<br>
+
+<br><li>glutBitmapHeight() and glutStrokeHeight() -- I have added them to the
+freeglut-1.3 API, they are already implemented and should work fine,</li>
+<br><li>glutBitmapString() and glutStrokeString(), to write (multiple-line maybe)
+strings, starting from the current raster position, using some simple formatting
+maybe (changing the color, font, etc.?)</li>
+<br><li>texture mapped fonts -- this is easy and could be added to freeglut-1.3, but
+would require adding the...</li>
+<br><li>glutHint() function to tell freeglut to: use bitmapped/texture mapped fonts,
+draw the menus and mouse cursor using OpenGL/window system, and stuff...</li>
+<br><li>glutMainLoop() termination and glutMainLoopStep() function, which should
+perform a single check of pending events, so that one can have his own main loop,</li>
+<br><li>multiple joysticks support with multiple axes, buttons, hats, etc. It is a real
+good thing to do, yet the API to do the magic might result in being really twisted,</li>
+<br><li>glutModifierFunc() could be added, or glutGetModifierState() should be allowed
+to be called anywhere from the client's code</li>
+
+<br><p>We might also think about:<br>
+
+<br><li>freeglut-2.0 modularity via plugins, so that only the features that one
+needs get loaded (plugins are easily supported by GLib),</li>
+<br><li>OpenGL state management functions,</li>
+<br><li>audio support -- using OpenAL maybe?,</li>
+<br><li>a real menu system, not only the popups</li>
+<br><li>non-OpenGL but portable UI, something like Java Swing</li>
+<br><li>window-closing confirmation box (this is related to the above)</li>
+
+<br><p>Following ideas are bad for freeglut:<br>
+
+<br><li>more accurate timers under Win32 -- this goes to the GLib development afaik</li>
+<br><li>portable file I/O, portable threads, plugins/modules -- this is already
+done in GLib</li>
+
+<br><br><a href="index.html"><i>Back to the main page</i></a>
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