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Trying to learn how to use jogl. Need help!

Posted by shadoworld56 on Aug 29, 2014; 1:40am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Trying-to-learn-how-to-use-jogl-Need-help-tp4032957.html

This is a cry for help. I have been trying to figure out how to work openGL on java for 2 days. I want to be able to use a plain text editor to write a simple window call and add an openGL environment to it. No IDE. I compiled a java program with javac just fine but when I attempt a demo JOGL program it fails. It seems everything I have tried is ether unclear, outdated, or requires Eclipse.
It seems like the wiki for JOGL that explains how to work it assumes I know how to install this library.

All I have done is the following.

1) Download java JDK

2)download and unpack JOGL

3)run test.sh and test_dbg.sh

4)attempt a basic tutorial that included a simple JOGL program.


I could go on and on about what all I have been trying and reading, or talk about why I don't want to use a IDE, but really I just want to be able to start messing around with openGL.

P.S I am so sick of half right tutorials and magical background stuff that articles never explain. I really wish I had someone I could ask about my coding problems and they could point out where things are going wrong. Instead I'm stuck with seemingly obsessive googling and constant "do this to make it work and don't worry about why it works." #WantAMentor