Areas | Graphics, Tk, OpenGL |
Good if student knows | C, OpenGL |
Priority | High |
Difficulty | Medium |
Benefits to the student | Experience in both 3d programming, and C |
Benefits to Tcl | We get access to the 3d canvas widget once more |
Mentor | Sean Woods |
In all of the changes that have gone into Tk8.6, the 3d canvas Canvas3d has stopped working on both the Windows and OSX platforms.
OSX needs a rewrite because it depends very heavily on carbonized Tk, and we've since cocoaized Tk.
Windows... the plugin for windows just crashes nowadays.