Monday, May 02, 2005

ClientJava.com - High performance SWT interfaces with OpenGL

ClientJava.com - High performance SWT interfaces with OpenGL: "High performance SWT interfaces with OpenGL

High performance SWT interfaces with OpenGL
the Eclipse articles sections there is a good piece written by Bo Majewski, from Cisco Systems: Using OpenGL with SWT. This is an excerpt:

To address this need, a plug-in was developed that enabled OpenGL rendering onto an SWT Drawable. While the plug-in is still experimental, it can be used to create high-impact, high-performance graphics in Eclipse plug-ins and SWT applications. The goal of this article is to give the reader a gentle introduction to the world of OpenGL and its use in SWT. Immediately I am going to provide caveat lector. The subjects of 3D rendering and OpenGL are so vast that they are well beyond the scope of this short writeup..."

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