From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA10779; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:05:55 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10792 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:05:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3MK5qj26333 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:05:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g3MK5UXt006759; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:05:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp211.dyn71.pacific.net.au [202.7.71.211]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id GAA23745; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:05:27 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CC46D06.7030604@ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:05:26 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom CC: Sven , Tim Freeman , willb@cs.wisc.edu, stf@apl.it, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCamlSDL References: <20020422065549.85045.qmail@web11907.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Tom wrote: >Sooner or later, 2D UIs based on 3D APIs and accelerators >are going to become widespread. > >However, for a good 2D UI, you need pixel-accurate rendering >and some other features. I think generic OpenGL doesn't >quite offer all the necessary features. Also, people like UIs >that "scale down" to low-end devices; not every handheld can >run OpenGL well (yet). > Or Tk. Or Ocaml... Perhaps I'm confused, but I though at least OpenGL was a Standard produced by XOpen .. but the Linux version is called Mesa .. is OpenGL interface really SGI proprietary? -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners