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| <td valign="top" style="padding: 10px"><h1 style="padding: 0; margin: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">Using OpenGL in SWT Applications</h1> |
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| <p>Support for OpenGL is included in SWT as of Eclipse 3.2 in the package |
| <i>org.eclipse.swt.opengl</i>. See the <b>GLCanvas</b> class for |
| a widget which hosts an OpenGL context.</p> |
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| <h3>Java OpenGL Bindings</h3> |
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| <p>OpenGL applications use two separate APIs: the window-system |
| independent drawing API (OpenGL), and a window-system specific |
| integration layer (WGL under Windows, GLX under X, etc). SWT |
| provides a thin layer above the window-system specific integration API, |
| enabling applications to use their Java OpenGL binding of choice.</p> |
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| <li>The <a href="http://www.lwjgl.org/">Lightweight Java Game Library |
| (LWJGL)</a> is a Java binding for OpenGL which supports OpenGL 2.0 and |
| many interesting extensions. For an example using <i>LWJGL</i> with SWT, see |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet195.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">Snippet 195</a>. |
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| <li><a href="http://jogl.dev.java.net/">JOGL</a> is a Java binding for OpenGL. |
| For an example using <i>JOGL</i> with SWT, see |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet209.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">Snippet 209</a>. |
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| <li><a href="http://gljava.sourceforge.net/">gljava</a> is a Java binding |
| for OpenGL which aims to be simple and thin. <i>gljava</i> is reported to work |
| well with SWT. |
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| <li><i>org.eclipse.opengl</i> was SWT's first experimental Java binding |
| for OpenGL 1.1 and GLU built as an Eclipse plugin. For a |
| simple example using this binding, see |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet174.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">Snippet 174</a>. |
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| <h3>The Experimental org.eclipse.opengl Binding</h3> |
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| <p>To run the OpenGL view example, simply extract the zip and the |
| <i>org.eclipse.opengl</i> plugin to your Eclipse plugins folder. To run the standalone |
| example, download the examples zip along with the <i>org.eclipse.opengl</i> zip for |
| your platform and import them into your workspace.</p> |
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| <p>Please note that this binding is experimental and subject to change. <b>If you are using SWT 3.2 or newer then you should |
| use the supported OpenGL binding that is included in the SWT package instead.</b></p> |
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| <tr><th bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" style="padding: 2px;"><font color="#ffffff"> Experimental OpenGL Binding 0.5 for SWT</font> |
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| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">28 Sep 2005</span> |
| <td valign="top">Windows |
| <td valign="top"><a href="eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-win32.zip">eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-win32.zip</a> |
| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">28 Sep 2005</span> |
| <td valign="top">Linux x86 |
| <td valign="top"><a href="eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-linux-x86.zip">eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-linux-x86.zip</a> |
| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">28 Sep 2005</span> |
| <td valign="top">MacOS X |
| <td valign="top"><a href="eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-macosx.zip">eclipse-opengl-0.5.0-macosx.zip</a> |
| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">28 Sep 2005</span> |
| <td valign="top">Example applications |
| <td valign="top"><a href="org.eclipse.swt.opengl.examples_0.5.0.zip">org.eclipse.swt.opengl.examples_0.5.0.zip</a> |
| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">28 Sep 2005</span> |
| <td valign="top">Example plugin with a view that uses OpenGL |
| <td valign="top"><a href="org.eclipse.swt.examples.openglview_0.5.0.zip">org.eclipse.swt.examples.openglview_0.5.0.zip</a> |
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| <tr><th colspan="3" bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" style="padding: 2px;"><font color="#ffffff"> Deprecated OpenGL Binding for SWT 3.1</font> |
| <tr><td valign="top"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">10 Nov 2004</span> |
| <td valign="top">Experimental OpenGL plugins for SWT 3.1 |
| <td valign="top"><a href="opengl.html">old implementation</a> |
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