[GEM-dev] entry and program strings

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

james tittle wrote:
> hey all,
> 
> ...finally getting over the flu, or whatever it was:  not a good way  to 

hija. good to hear that everythings good now.

> start the year!  I decided to give ben's [entry] another go since  the 
> fixes/corrections in december, and sure enough it's working  correctly 
> now...
> 
> ...so now I'm trying to figure out how use this as an input to the  
> various program objects (glsl, arb):  I can see that it's outputting  a 
> symbol list, but it also produces the weird "escaping" for "," and  ";", 
> so I'm a bit unsure as to how to parse the input into a usable  program 
> string?  Is the idea to just look for "\\\", removing that  and just 
> using the following symbol?
> 
> ...also wondering if we're going to need to include other escaping,  
> like for returns or other punctuations that are generally found in  
> shader programs:  I'm pretty sure that opengl can handle strings  
> without returns, but don't have the spec/manual in front of me...
> 

GLSL doesn't care about line-breaks just like C.
however debugging will be harder (try to find the error in line-1!).

which other characters are needed?
i will have a look at the escaping (bset thing would be to de-escape in 
the C-part of [entry])

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