Santiance » Graphics Design http://santiance.com Kristopher Ives's Developer Notes Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:07:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 OpenGL Man Pages for Ubuntu http://santiance.com/2009/10/opengl-man-pages-for-ubuntu/ http://santiance.com/2009/10/opengl-man-pages-for-ubuntu/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:26 +0000 Kristopher Ives http://santiance.com/?p=599 Looking for an OpenGL documentation for package in Ubuntu? To begin, what would the package be named? My instincts told me to try gl-doc, libgl-doc, and eventually moved into the territory of libmesa or xorg. Obviously none of these worked. Out of despiration I tried dpkg -l | grep gl | grep doc, and there was nothing.

In the past I’ve used the online GL documentation without any real problem, but I knew I was going to be sitting in a room without internet access for a while. Besides, I want to just type man glBegin, or use yelp. Luckily a nice guy repackage the GL man pages back in 2006, and it appears has been keeping up with them all along.

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In the past we’ve all pimped out Compiz to the point where we’re basically expecting a Spinner Rims plug-in, but I want to change that a bit. Firstly I think that many effects use too much blending with Opacity, which can be sluggish on older or low-performance hardware. Plus I think the Dodge focus effect, Show Desktop, and other effects that simply “move” windows look really clean.

A nice developer on the Compiz Forums helped me out in my post about modifying the animations plugins, which led me to this git repository:

git clone git://git.compiz.org/users/smspillaz/simple-animations

From there you can follow the thread on how I simply modified his Fly In effect to be capable of using the Minimize and other events. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, but the point is that the code is already integrated with Compiz, which is easily half the battle. I’m now in the process of doing a couple of neat things:

  • As I decrypt the inner workings of their plugin API I would like to document
  • The best way I can think of to document is to wrap it in Java and provide bindings. This kills two birds with one stone: Java bindings and it’s a lot nicer to use javadoc over something like doxygen. (see our doc/ archive)

The result so far was this:

Flash video haters can download an Ogg Video (1.5Mb)

Let me know what you think. I’m also looking for some help with building 32-bit packages. If you want my code it’s available here:

bzr branch http://santiance.com/bzr/compiz-fusion-plugins-simple

And just for kicks anyone with 64-bit can have this package that seem to be working rather nicely for me.

Update:

Anyone interested in compiz 0.9 docs (C++) see: http://santiance.com/doc/compiz/html/annotated.html

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