OpenGL
This is a stub page for Haskell's OpenGL and GLUT bindings. It is meant as a starting point to replace the outdated and misleading documentation at the old page.
First, note that the implementation is far more up-to-date than that old page suggested (originally, it was quite useful, but the page hasn't kept up with the implementation for a long time now).
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1 References
In particular, note that the examples/ directory in the GLUT repo contains lots of examples, including translations of the red book examples.
Both the API documentation and the examples are best studied with the original specs and the original red book examples at hand. An index of the examples from v1.1 of the red book, with screen shots, can be found here
2 Projects using the OpenGL bindings
- Frag, a 3D first-person shooter game
3 HOpenGL Resources
- http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/hopengl/ Andre Furtado's nice tutorial written in 2001 (bitrotted)
- http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/HOpenGL/HOpenGL.html#texLoad Spriting with HOpenGL, David Morra
- a short Haskell OpenGL tutorial part 1
- a short Haskell OpenGL tutorial part 2
4 OpenGL Resources
- OpenGL FAQ and Toubleshooting Guide Assumes some knowledge of OpenGL. Good for those who have written something but want to avoid common pitfalls.
5 Getting Started
- assuming you know Haskell, any OpenGL tutorial of your choice should get you going (browsing the OpenGL site is also a good idea)
- use the Red Book, and its example code translations, to understand the small differences between OpenGL and HOpenGL
- use the OpenGL and GLUT specs to find your way around the HOpenGL Haddock documentation
- use the HopenGL list for questions and success stories
6 Troubleshooting
6.1 I can't display text with renderString
It's probably because the text is displayed too big. Setting a much smaller scale factor before calling renderString should solve the problem.
scale 0.001 0.001 (0.001∷GLfloat) renderString Roman "Test string"
6.2 Animations flicker
If you're not using DoubleBuffered display mode, turn that on. Also, you must set the display mode before creating the window you're going to be drawing in. To check if you've enabled double buffering use something like:
db <- get doubleBuffered
and set DoubleBuffered mode (before creating your windows!) like this:
initialDisplayMode $= [DoubleBuffered] createWindow "My Window"