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Cyrille Rossant edited this page Feb 26, 2014 · 1 revision

What framework are available for opening a GL window ?

We probably want to support:

Rendering in a standalone Window. Preferably without the need of a GUI toolkit.
Off-screen rendering, so we can blit the result to any canvas we want (possibly remotely).
Embedding a figure in a GUI, so that applications can integrate the library well. At least Qt (PySide+PyQt4), Gtk and Wx should be supported.

GLUT

Pro

Available from most GL distribution
Lightweight

Cons

Deprecated
Very basic GUI
Not maintained

GLFW

Pro

actively maintained
lightweight

Cons

No GUI
No officiel python binding (I've made them though)

Pyglet

Pro

Just works !
Modern OpenGL

Cons

Own GL bindings with extensive use of ctypes

SDL

Pro

Cons

GTK

Pro

Cons

QT

Pro

Cons

WX

Pro

Cons