[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT OpenGL binding

[Alan Hudson <giles@xxxxxx>]

Michael Imhof wrote:
> We tested OpenGL and SWT with 5 canvas a made a few measurements. OpenGL
> was much faster than SWT (as expected).
> So we decided to use SWT OpenGL binding with LWJGL for our application.
>
> But after a few months we had performance problems with OpenGL. In the 
> real application we're using 8 screens with 12 canvas. This means
> we're handling around 100 canvas and this seems to be too much for the 
> OpenGL binding.
>
> To solve the problem, we could decrement the used canvas but this would be
> against modularity of our painting screen. We decided to switch to SWT.
>
> It has been a year now and I'm wondering if the SWT OpenGL binding is 
> still in
> an experimental state?
> Is somebody using the SWT OpenGL binding with success? (Supposed you're 
> using
> as much canvas panels we're using!!).

We've ported the JOGL bindings to SWT.

http://opengl.j3d.org/swt/jogl.html

Our Java scenegraph Aviatrix3D also runs on top of this.  Recently we 
have also gotten the system to run as a lightweight renderer for 
GEF/Draw2D as well.

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Alan Hudson

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