The CPAN testers matrix for OpenGL::Sandbox can be misleading because it can use either OpenGL or OpenGL::Modern, and when it uses OpenGL it skips some of the tests because (for example) buffer objects aren't available from the OpenGL module.

I just checked with my current install of 5.36, and t/35 and t/36 are both crashing. I'll take a look at it. If you aren't using new stuff it won't matter for you.

I agree that OpenGL::Modern is less friendly. The author took a more "exactly the same as the C API" approach, and while that makes it easier to port C code to Perl, I doubt anyone wants to write C code in Perl if Perl isn't adding "friendly" wrappers. That was sort of why I made the OpenGL::Sandbox. If you look at the source code of the shadertoy script, it is massively simpler than the corresponding C code, and a lot safer than manipulating raw pointers in Perl.

The downside of modern / shaders is that I never wrote a Font module for it. So, the only way to get text is to use ::V1 and the matrix stack and all that.

In reply to Re^3: Graphics: OpenGL in Perl/Tk ... with GLUT by NERDVANA
in thread Graphics: OpenGL in Perl/Tk ... with GLUT by haj

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