[Seaside] FWD: Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] Croquet OpenGL on Squeaksource (Re: Trying to load ALienOpenGL into 4.1 alpha...)

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Fri May 28 03:35:34 UTC 2010


(Andreas Raab responded to this with:


This is your problem. CroquetGL has not been tested on Pharo. I suspect 
Pharo 1.0 has still the dreadful "SmalltalkImage current platformName". )


Is AlienOpenGL still an option?


Lawson



On 5/27/10 7:54 PM, Lawson English wrote:
> Darn,  tried that with the latest update of Seaside 3.0a.  I had to 
> use Monticello directly, rather than Installer.   'OpenGL example." 
> returned the error MessageNotUnderstood: SystemDictionary>>platformName
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> On 3/22/10 11:04 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> On 3/22/2010 7:27 PM, Lawson English wrote:
>>> Croquet OpenGL is dependent on all sorts of things. Have you managed to
>>> get Croquet working in a modernish version of Squeak/Pharo?
>>
>> (you will need an updated 4.1 trunk image - I've promoted 
>> Form>>flipVertically to core in the process of making this package)
>>
>> From http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL
>>
>> The OpenGL interface from Croquet for consumption in other contexts. 
>> Supports OpenGL 1.4 plus extensions.
>>
>> To install, first load the FFI via:
>>
>> (Installer repository: 'http://source.squeak.org/FFI')
>>     install: 'FFI-Pools';
>>     install: 'FFI-Kernel';
>>     install: 'FFI-Tests'.
>>
>> then load CroquetGL:
>>
>> (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL')
>>     install: '3DTransform';
>>     install: 'OpenGL-Pools';
>>     install: 'OpenGL-Core'.
>>
>> When everything has loaded, try the example:
>>
>>     OpenGL example.
>>
>> Important Windows Note:
>>
>> In order to use Croquet on Windows, you must make sure your VM is set 
>> to support OpenGL instead of D3D by default. To do this, press F2 or 
>> go to the system menu, into the "Display and Sound" section and 
>> ensure the preference "Use OpenGL (instead of D3D" is ENABLED.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
>>
>>
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