johnson@horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson) (01/04/91)
We have a couple of Risc6000's for which we purchased the SGI GL hardware/software options, and I have just started to port some small 3D graphics programs. (Watching the net, I see that there have only been a couple requests for info, but not much response.) One difference that came up immediately was in opening a window from a program w/o first specifying height and width. On an SGI machine control of the window size defaults to the mouse, but not so on the IBM. Instead a small icon is created which can be zoomed to full screen, but this is not particularly convenient. Is anybody familiar with this? Should I be digging deep into an AIXWindows manual/info-session in an attempt to find an indirect hint? What would be especially helpful would be a GL-porting-guide, but I have not been able to track down such a beast. Does it exist? On a tangent, someone asked a while back about sincos from SGI not existing on IBM. I see gl_sincos is referenced in the fortran and c include files in /usr/lpp/ibmgl/examples (provided the latter is installed). Don't know if that will be of any use. Thanks in advance -- Bruce Johnson Chemistry Dept, Rice Univ johnson@horta.rice.edu