[Panel-devel] OpenGL applets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Matias Valdenegro T. wrote:
> El Jue 05 Jul 2007, Zack Rusin escribió:
> > this code allows you to write fully OpenGL based plasma applets. simply
> > inherit Plasma::GLApplet instead of Plasma::Applet and reimplement
> > GLApplet::paintGLInterface instead of Applet::paintInterface
>
> Nice, but what are the differences between this and using a QGLWidget as
> the viewport of a QGraphicsView?

just about everything. when using a qglwidget for a qgraphicview vieport you 
are still using the qgrahpicsscene api to paint and whatnot; this lets you 
use actual opengl programming in a given item and regardless of what the 
viewport is 

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