Re: DRAWxtl with runtime problems on Debian Etch/Sid

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 17:02 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert:

[DRAWxl freeglut issue]

Hmm. Got this mail from Larry Finger:

> I am now understanding this error a little better. Martin Kroeker 
> pointed out this note from the 2.4.0 release announcement at 
> freeglut.sourceforge.net:
> 
> "Users should note a new incompatibility with GLUT, in which GLUT 
> allowed the application to call some functions before 'glutInit' was 
> called.  This is contrary to both good programming practice and the
> GLUT 
> documentation, and the new 'freeglut' enforces the initial call to 
> 'glutInit'".
> 
> The problem is that DRAWxtl builds an openGL display list before it 
> opens the window, which is where the initGlut call generated by FLTK 
> takes place. This is an error to the new version of freeglut even
> though 
> no actual drawing takes place until after the window is open. We will 
> have to change the sequence of operations in DRAWxtl.

So, it seems to be a bug inside DRAWxtl and not a bug in freeglut3.

Regards, Daniel