ok here the basics:
JOGL requires native libs to talk to OpenGL which is part of your graphics driver. To tell the JVM where it should search for the native libs you have to set the library path explicitly via a command line flag.
to do this with NetBeans you will have to create a run configuration.
- use the combobox below the menu bar and choose ‘customize…’
- add -Djava.library.path=“lib” to the VM Options text field*
- Ok
*-Djava.library.path=“lib” sets the path to the folder ‘lib’ it is a relative path to the project folder that means if you create a lib folder in your project folder and dump the libs into it everything should be found when you start your app.
(note; you don’t have to do this if you have the NB OpenGL Pack installed, this will be done automatically)
here a sample application from the NetBeans OpenGL Pack which does all opengl setup and renders two shapes (there are around 100 other samples to try out if you install the pack). You should take a look esp. at the methods init, and reshape. Reshape is important since it handles the setup of the viewport and the modelview matrix etc.
just ask if you have further questions.
package org.yourorghere;
import com.sun.opengl.util.Animator;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.media.opengl.GL;
import javax.media.opengl.GLAutoDrawable;
import javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas;
import javax.media.opengl.GLEventListener;
import javax.media.opengl.glu.GLU;
/**
* SimpleJOGL.java
* author: Brian Paul (converted to Java by Ron Cemer and Sven Goethel) <P>
*
* This version is equal to Brian Paul's version 1.2 1999/10/21
*/
public class SimpleJOGL implements GLEventListener {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Frame frame = new Frame("Simple JOGL Application");
GLCanvas canvas = new GLCanvas();
canvas.addGLEventListener(new SimpleJOGL());
frame.add(canvas);
frame.setSize(640, 480);
final Animator animator = new Animator(canvas);
frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
@Override
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
// Run this on another thread than the AWT event queue to
// make sure the call to Animator.stop() completes before
// exiting
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
animator.stop();
System.exit(0);
}
}).start();
}
});
// Center frame
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
animator.start();
}
public void init(GLAutoDrawable drawable) {
// Use debug pipeline
// drawable.setGL(new DebugGL(drawable.getGL()));
GL gl = drawable.getGL();
System.err.println("INIT GL IS: " + gl.getClass().getName());
// Enable VSync
gl.setSwapInterval(1);
// Setup the drawing area and shading mode
gl.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
gl.glShadeModel(GL.GL_SMOOTH); // try setting this to GL_FLAT and see what happens.
}
public void reshape(GLAutoDrawable drawable, int x, int y, int width, int height) {
GL gl = drawable.getGL();
GLU glu = new GLU();
if (height <= 0) { // avoid a divide by zero error!
height = 1;
}
final float h = (float) width / (float) height;
gl.glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL.GL_PROJECTION);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
glu.gluPerspective(45.0f, h, 1.0, 20.0);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL.GL_MODELVIEW);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
}
public void display(GLAutoDrawable drawable) {
GL gl = drawable.getGL();
// Clear the drawing area
gl.glClear(GL.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// Reset the current matrix to the "identity"
gl.glLoadIdentity();
// Move the "drawing cursor" around
gl.glTranslatef(-1.5f, 0.0f, -6.0f);
// Drawing Using Triangles
gl.glBegin(GL.GL_TRIANGLES);
gl.glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); // Set the current drawing color to red
gl.glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top
gl.glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Set the current drawing color to green
gl.glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Left
gl.glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); // Set the current drawing color to blue
gl.glVertex3f(1.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Right
// Finished Drawing The Triangle
gl.glEnd();
// Move the "drawing cursor" to another position
gl.glTranslatef(3.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
// Draw A Quad
gl.glBegin(GL.GL_QUADS);
gl.glColor3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f); // Set the current drawing color to light blue
gl.glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top Left
gl.glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top Right
gl.glVertex3f(1.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Right
gl.glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Left
// Done Drawing The Quad
gl.glEnd();
// Flush all drawing operations to the graphics card
gl.glFlush();
}
public void displayChanged(GLAutoDrawable drawable, boolean modeChanged, boolean deviceChanged) {
}
}
