[Scilab-Dev] Plotting, OpenGL, JOGL, MESA and the JSR-231

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mercredi 11 mars 2009 à 15:55 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard a écrit : 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry in advance but I think this post is going to sound chaotic :)
Just a bit ;)

> First is there any plan to transition to whatever JOGL evolved into
> i.e. JSR-231. (or whatever it is, it's all pretty confusing..)
What do you mean here ?

> Second, Is Scilab generally stable when plotting under mesa Xlib
> software rendering?
Yep... but it is pretty slow (as always with mesa).

> In Solaris/OpenSolaris it actually work but often crash Scilab / Java
> / Xorg... It this a known issue or should I try to investigate a bit
> more?
It is probably a problem of driver with the use we are doing of jogl.
See: 
http://wiki.scilab.org/Graphical_issues_with_Scilab_5.0

Sylvestre