What is Togl???

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Tobias Pfeiffer wrote:

>Hi!
>
>On my Debian Linux System, I installed the python-opengl package and 
>all that had a direct dependency. Then I wanted to look at the samples 
>that are shipped with that package (at /usr/share/doc/python-
>opengl/Demo/). But every script I run in one of the subfolders gives 
>me:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "text.py", line 4, in ?
>    from OpenGL.Tk import *
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/OpenGL/Tk/__init__.py", line 
>39, in ?
>    _default_root.tk.call('package', 'require', 'Togl')
>_tkinter.TclError: can't find package Togl
>
>So what is Togl??? 
>
Togl is the Tkinter widget for OpenGL display.  Togl refuses to compile 
with the version of Tk distributed with Python 2.3 and above (it should 
compile for 2.2, though I haven't checked that in a while), and so it's 
being dropped from PyOpenGL.  I've got rewriting the Tk-based samples to 
use GLUT and/or PyGame on my todo list, btw.

You can rebuild PyOpenGL 2.0.1 with Togl support on Unix, but unless you 
really need to run old scripts which used it, it's probably not worth 
the effort (of setting the flag to true).

In theory, if you can compile (or find compiled) Togl for Tk 8.4 (and 
then install it in the Python Tk instance), it should run fine.  I, 
however, have burned far too much PyOpenGL development time on it (given 
that Tk is hardly the cutting edge in GUIs these days), so I'm not 
likely to work on it any more.

Enjoy yourself,
Mike

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