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Hello World OpenTK For MonoTouch?

Posted Monday, 21 September, 2009 - 03:08 by airkart in

Hi,

I was curious, with the release of MonoTouch and its stripped-down version of OpenTK, if anyone has created a "Hello World" type of OpenTK tutorial for MonoTouch. I searched online but couldn't find one (granted, MonoTouch is new), and the usual tutorials for OpenTK are for standard Mono/.NET applications.

Thanks in advance,
Conrad

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Re: Hello World OpenTK For MonoTouch?

Posted Monday, 21 September, 2009 - 04:35 by the Fiddler

Check out the OpenGLESSample from the monotouch/samples repository. The code covers everything you need to know in order to use OpenTK on MonoTouch.

The main difference from the regular OpenTK is that you use MonoTouch/iPhone facilities to create the OpenGL context, read input or otherwise interact with the OS. OpenTK provides only OpenGL|ES bindings and math functions.

There is an on-going effort to strip down OpenTK dependencies and make its internal implementation more modular. While not a high-priority, it is possible we'll see more parts of OpenTK running on MonoTouch in the future.

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Re: Hello World OpenTK For MonoTouch?

Posted Monday, 21 September, 2009 - 15:46 by airkart

Yes, that sample code helped quite a bit, thank you! I think things changed since beta (to be expected) as I had to rejigger it a bit. Nevertheless, I have a spinning rainbow square in my iPhone simulator, so now I have something with which to go forth!

Thanks again,
Conrad