In article <3ee20a47@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   You mean that it's not possible to make POV-Ray use its Windows code for
> the editor and other stuff at the same time as opening the preview window
> with GLUT code?

That's what I'm saying. GLUT handles everything in its own event loop: 
mouse, keyboard, window updates, menus, etc. I am fairly certain it is 
not designed to coexist with "manual" API calls. You might be able to do 
some things, but I don't think you could use GLUT only to open one 
window in an existing complete application.


>   OTOH, this might not even be necessary as long as the program is designed
> so that it's easy (eg. with a compiler constant) to use GLUT to open the
> preview window in the command-line version of POV-Ray. (In fact, using
> GLUT to open a window in the otherwise command-line version is extremely
> simple, requiring only a couple of lines of code.)

Yes, it could be contained in a small, simple interface to allow 
external code to override the cross-platform stuff.

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