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-<p><i>January the 16th, 2000</i>
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-<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 :)
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-<br><ul><li><b><font size=+2>input devices</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<p>None of the bizarre input devices found in GLUT API is supported (and probably won't).
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-<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).
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>pull-down menus</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>fonts</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<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.
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-<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.
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-<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.
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>mouse cursor</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>indexed color mode</font></b></li>
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-<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?)
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>planes</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<p>Layers would be good for drawing the menus and mouse cursor, as they wouldn't force
-the application redraw to update their state.
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>init display string</font></b></li>
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-<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...
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>game mode</font></b></li>
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-<p>Is the game mode string parsed correctly?
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>geometry</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<br><br><li><b><font size=+2>obvious bugs</font></b></li>
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-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>
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-GLX 1.3 spec states that glXChooseVisual() et consortes are deprecated. Should move to
-glXFBConfig.</li>
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-<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>
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-I was told it is wrong to have the redisplay forced in the main loop. Is that right?</li>
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-</ol><br><li><b><font size=+2>not so obvious bugs</font></b></li>
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-<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.
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-<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>
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