[GEM-dev] Lua an GEM

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008 7:53 PM, marius schebella  
> <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>> the timing and erasing is usually done by the gemwin. afaik there  
>> is no
>> way to get the erase trigger and the render trigger as two separate
>> events from gemwin.
>
> Ok, I'm actually not trying to get the render trigger.  I'm looking
> for an event like dest_closed where dest would be the window and the
> window is closing.  How does, for example, a texture in GEM deallocate
> its resources properly?  I'll take a look at the source and see.
>
>> do you have a working luagl version for os x?
>
> Yes
>
>> do you also have the
>> problem that the gemwin doesnot come to the foreground? are you on  
>> mac
>> at all?
>
> I actually don't have pd and GEM installed.  I'm simply building a Lua
> module called glo (GL Objects) that contains shaders, textures, slabs,
> etc.  These things need events that indicate information about the
> context to properly manage opengl resources.  With this thread, I was
> trying to find out if there was a simple way to plug into such events
> (if they even existed).  I don't really plan on downloading GEM, I'm
> just trying to make sure the design of the glo Lua module is flexible
> enough to support a wide range of embedding contexts.

FYI:  Pd doesn't need to be installed.  So if you want to test  
something, just download the dmg and double-click it to run it.   
It'll leave no trace on your computer, unless you click "save all  
settings" the preferences.

http://puredata.info/downloads

or for Leopard (test build):

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-12-31/Pd-0.40.3- 
extended-20071231-macosx104-i386.dmg

.hc


>
> best,
> wes
>
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