Willing to attempt port of freeglut - advice?

[fxmaker]

Hi all,

I am willing to attempt a port of freeglut as all of my teaching examples use that (I teach an introductory computer graphics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison).

Is there anyone who:
a) has advice on a starting place
b) is willing to collaborate

Thank you

[fxmaker]

I see there is an ES port of freeglut already:

http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/docs/gles.php

Has anyone succeeded in getting this running?

[fxmaker]

I have succeeded in compiling and linking the GLES version of freeglut on the PI. It is too late to try it now.

[fxmaker]

Sorry all - I'm choosing to go another way.

[-rst-]

Care to share the secret Sounds extremely intriguing when you put it that way

[fxmaker]

I'm sorry for the delay in answering - I am not subscribed to my own post.

As the saying goes: "Standards are great! That's why we have so many of them."

I decided it would be more fun and instructional to write a fully object oriented framework incorporating my own slant towards what a simple framework for GLES use (in higher education) might look like. I'm familiar with the great work being done by Jon Macey but his goals differ from my own. His intent is that the entire framework be instructive on software engineering, my goal is to get students slinging pixels as quickly as possible.

I've borrowed some concepts from C# (delegates and events) and eliminated the many event callback registrations with (what I feel is) a more flexible and consistent interface.

I'm ready to sling pixels but am currently having a baffling condition where a known BAD shader isn't being flagged as compiled unsuccessfully. Clearly I must be doing something wrong in conversion from GL to GLES.

Perhaps you could take a look - it is posted in another message?

Thank you