I wanted to know if there are any plans to support vulkan?

[Johnny Black]

Hi I wanted to know if there are any plans to support vulkan as well, as it has better performance?

[Ian MacArthur]

On 15 Jan 2022, at 08:19, Johnny Black wrote:
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> Hi I wanted to know if there are any plans to support vulkan as well, as it has better performance?

Plans is one thing - resources is another (i.e. folks able to work on that.)

Patches welcome...

[Johnny Black]

I see thanks

[Rob McDonald]

On Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 12:59:59 AM UTC-8 wrote:

Hi I wanted to know if there are any plans to support vulkan as well, as it has better performance?

What kind of support did you have in mind?  Using Vulkan as a fundamental drawing back end?  Or supporting a Vulkan environment such that an application that needed a GUI provided by FLTK and a 3D graphics window provided by Vulkan would work?

I suspect the former is not going to be worth anyone's time any time soon.  However, I also suspect that the latter is probably much more straightforward.  This is essentially the way OpenGL is supported today.

Rob

 

[janezz55]

The sad thing is, that if the graphics driver API (along with other driver APIs) was less ad-hoc and better thought-out, it would have made FLTK very powerful. As it is, you have lots of demo graphics drivers, that are IMO pretty much useless, as none work 100% correctly. AFAIK, there will always be some quirks.

[janezz55]

You better start coding. It seems easy at first, until you see that it isn't. Even FLTK-provided graphics drivers don't work 100% correctly (for example, the cairo driver), there are a lot of details you'll have to go over.