Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] GSXView

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 04:49  Uhr, Adam Fedor wrote:
> Frederic De Jaeger wrote:
> > Hi
> > Philippe> One more thing wrt OGL: what if there is no OGL installed?
> > Philippe> How should GNUstep handle this situation then?
> > We can imagine several solutions:
> > 1) #idfef HAS_GLX
> > I'm joking
> > 2) Put the NS*GL* classes in a separate library.
> > I don't know MACOSX X.  Are those classes part of the main GUI 
> > library?
> > 3) Put them in the main gui library, but only stubs that will load a
> > bundle when they are really instantiated.  We can implement this
> > solution (which I think is the best) via delegation or via class
> > clusters  (it depends on wether we  allow inheritance from these
> > NS*GL* classes or not  --- what does MACOSX allow in this case?)
>
> You'd probably want to use configure to conditionally compile in the 
> classes.

I second that, esp. since these classes are part of Cocoa's AppKit. But 
IMHO the classes should always be there, just using stubs if no OpenGL 
is available.

-Phil
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