This is an alpha release of a widget set for Mesa/OpenGL programming.

Objectives:
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  * Provide a GLwDrawingArea widget which is 100%ly compatible with
  SGI's widget.  Applications should port over with (almost) no
  changes to the source code.

  * Add a better widget (MesaDrawingArea) alongside or atop of it.  In
  particular, attach a XMesaContext transparently to the widget.  This
  should simplify applications with multiple widgets considerably.

  * Provide a high level workstation abtraction (MesaWorkstation) atop
  of MesaDrawingArea to allow PHIGS/PEX enthusiasts to continue in
  their style.


Status:
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  * The widgets basically work and the available functionality will
  probably remain (this means that you could use the for
  applications).  They are not finished yet, however.

  * The restriction to 8-bit PseudoColor visuals in MesaDrawingArea
  will be lifted ASAP.  It is a remnenet from the time when
  glXChooseVisual wasn't available and the author has only access to
  8-bit PseudoColor visual ...  The code is available in
  GLwDrawingArea and will be used by subsclassing MesaDrawingArea from
  it.

  * See also: TODO

  * This code should be considered alpha, however.  In particular,
  because we don't have the necessary wide range of visuals to test it
  out.

  * Comments, bugreports and in particular bugfixes are welcome.


Authors:
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  Jeroen van der Zijp <@>
  Thorsten Ohl <Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de>


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