Python GUI + OpenGL

[David Boddie]

On Monday 05 March 2007 18:22, Chris Mellon wrote:

> On 3/5/07, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>> Beside that, I do love the Qt library and would always use it in
>> preference to wx, but this is a general thing and by no means tied to the
>> OpenGL-programming. After all, that actually is done using PyOpenGL
> 
> wx and Qt support OpenGL in essentially the same manner. I believe he
> took from your earlier post that Qt had its own built in OpenGL
> wrapper (and thus didn't rely on PyOpenGL) but to my knowledge that is
> not correct.

Yes, you need PyOpenGL (or any other suitable OpenGL wrapper) to use
OpenGL with PyQt. Qt itself doesn't provide its own API for OpenGL; you
just use the implementation available on your system.

It is possible to get OpenGL-rendered 2D graphics without having
PyOpenGL installed; you just paint on a QGLWidget in the usual way.
However, I suspect that the original poster wanted to render 3D
graphics, so Python bindings to the system's OpenGL library are still
required.

David