gluLookAt doesn't seem to exist???

OpenGL Development JOGL Development
#1

Hello All,
I’m a newbie and I’m following a tutorial I found here

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/09/11/jogl2d.html

the code compiles fine but at runtime I get this

Exception in thread “main” net.java.games.jogl.GLException: Method “gluLookAt” not available
at net.java.games.jogl.impl.GLUImpl.gluLookAt(GLUImpl.java:874)

I just commented out the call to gluLookAt and I’ve been able to continue messing around but I’m perplexed as to what the problem is. I look inside jogl.jar and see that gluLookAt is an interface not a method, am I correct in thinking the actual implementation would be in the driver for my video card??
I’ve got a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 with latest NVidia drivers
OS is linux Fedora core 1
j2sdk1.4.2_03

#2

I didn’t see gluLookAt in that code. Generally if you are getting a method not available code then either you don’t have the glu.dll available or you are calling gluLookAt from a different thread than the one your opengl context is on.

#3

The stuff I attached is the error I get not my code
I’m writing this using Netbeans and running in the debugger, that error is the result of executing this line of code

glu.gluLookAt(0.0f,0.0f,4.0f,0.0f,0.0f,-1.0f,0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);

I bet you’re onto something with the thread issue, I’m way ahead of myself in that I’ve created my jogl context in a Swing application, probably I should backup and get things working without Swing.

Thanx
Dave