Re: The same Forth on different OS

Conrad Weyns <weyns@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I recently suggested looking into OpenGL for our next gui version at my
> place of work.
> The Windows .NET gurus (they are gaining ground at a steady pace)
> immediately turned it down in favour of some Windows technology that I
> allready forgot the name of, but it sounded like "Direct-something-??".

It is interesting to look at the list of high-end cross-platform
applications (especially high-performance games) that are coded in
OpenGL: <http://opengl.org/applications/index.html>

Clearly, your employers have no plans for EVER ****ting to Linux, Unix,
OS X, in which case their choice may be ok - to be sure, you or they
should study some of the results of a Google search of "OpenGL vs
Direct3D", especially the nice overview at:
<http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1775.asp>


An OS X OpenGL demo with the MacForth source used to build it is at
<http://www2.megawolf.com/~ward/updates/OpenGLdemo.sit>.
 The OpenGL
Forth code is almost identical to the gForth version (slightly different
syntax for the Framework calls and callbacks, a bug fix for 10.3, and
manually included rather than .h-im****ted constants.)  The only
OS-specific stuff that really would be needed to use OpenGL is the glue
for the OpenGL Framework calls and the glue to allow callbacks from the
Frameworks back into Forth.

-- w