OpenGL on Windows

[Stephen F Northover]

It should all just work.  The first step is to go and build OpenJFX.  If 
something doesn't work, we can help you through JIRA and this list.

Steve

On 2014-01-14 6:57 AM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
> Thanks Stephen.
>
> If I were to build an OpenGL-based platform for Windows, would the 
> font rendering technique need to change?  That is, could DirectWrite 
> still be used to rasterise the glyphs (if that's what's currently 
> happening) and would there be any reason for the text rendering 
> quality to degrade?
>
> You mentioned that "ES2 code is not there": was that just an example 
> or will I really have to address this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Felix
>
>
>
> On 14 January 2014 06:28, Stephen F Northover 
> <steve.x.northover at oracle.com <mailto:steve.x.northover at oracle.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Essentially, OpenGL on Windows would be another platform to
>     support.  If you build your own OpenJFX for Windows, it will work
>     but it is completely unsupported.
>
>     https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX
>
>     If you run into any problems after you have successfully built
>     (ie. the ES2 code is not there), open a JIRA request for OpenGL
>     support on Windows and we can follow up there.  Even if we don't
>     fix the JIRA, we can capture the information for other that might
>     want to do the same thing.
>
>     Steve
>
>
>     On 2014-01-13 1:19 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
>
>         Having watched the presentation from Stephen and Felipe about
>         integrating JavaFX and native technologies such as OpenGL, I
>         am inspired to work on a solution for my own needs for fast
>         rendering of thousands of objects using the techniques in the
>         video which I would then contribute to the community.
>
>         However, it's quite clear that any OpenGL based solution is
>         not going to work on Windows because OpenGL is not enabled on
>         that platform.
>
>         Given that I don't want to write code that supports both
>         OpenGL and D3D, could someone answer these questions?
>
>         1. Why is OpenGL not enabled on Windows? Is it a performance
>         thing? Is it because of poor text rendering with OpenGL?
>
>         2. What's involved in hacking Prism to enable OpenGL?
>
>         3. If 2 is not possible, is there some way to develop an
>         abstraction layer on top of both OpenGL and D3D?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Felix
>
>
>