Major work, its status and planned milestone. Help on any of these plans is very welcome! Fork the github repository, join and contact us on the freeglut-developer mailing list to discuss your plans, and get cracking!
| Feature | Status | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| Android port | Basic but complete functionality by Sylvain Beucler, but there are todo points | Basic functionality as is now done: 3.0. Future enhancements: 3.0 or later. |
| BlackBerry 10 port | Basic but complete functionality by Vinnie Simonetti. | Basic functionality as is now done: 3.0. Future enhancements: 3.0 or later. |
| callbacks with closures | Have versions of each callback that take an additional void* that is passed back to the user upon invocation. | 3.2 |
| 10bit display formats | GLUT supports that but FreeGLUT currently does not. Unfinished effort to implement here. | 3.0 or later. |
| GL2+ and GLES 1/2 clean API for geometry | Done for all (geometry like cube, cone, etc, as well as the teapot and other parts of the teaset) | 3.0 |
| GL2+ and GLES 1/2 clean API for fonts and menus | For stroke fonts, we can use a similar approach as for the shapes, should thus be straightforward. For the bitmap fonts, this is more complex. John T suggested "using a glyph atlas texture with GL_STREAM_DRAW VBOs", which would get us somewhere. Code could be ripped from his libdrawtext library | The sooner the better, but will have to wait for asap after 3.0. |
| At runtime loading of OpenGL, OpenGL ES1 or OpenGL ES2 libraries, like SDL. | Currently CMake variables define at compile time which of these three the library will be compiled against. No work has been done on moving this to an at-runtime API. | Having this in 3.0 would be nice, but not essential. |
| Code reorganized such that platform-specific and display server-specific code are decoupled | Done, thanks John Fay! This already led to a port to Android and support for GLES 1/2 on X11 (thanks Sylvain for both!), and paves the way for implementing native OSX and Wayland support | 3.0 |
| Position callback | Done: we now have a position callback to notify the client when the position of the window changed. | 3.0 |
| Carbon/Cocoa port | Not started. As Carbon is legacy, one might want to port to Cocoa first or even forget about Carbon all together. | Undecided |
| Wayland port | Not started. | Undecided |
| Unicode support | Not started, we'd need to discuss this carefully on the mailing list first to minimize impact on the API. | Undecided |
| Complete glutInitDisplayString support | FreeGLUT now only partially supports glutInitDisplayString, any spec (comparator and value) after each token are ignored. This is a significant way in which FreeGLUT is not compatible with GLUT. Could be a nice project for someone who want to become familiar with the intricacies of requesting specific display formats on at least one of the various window servers (Windows, X11 and Android/BlackBerry 10/EGL at the moment). | Undecided |