New UI Backend: AGAR?

[Osprey]

I was play with libAgar and I think that it may be useful for celestia as gui front-end.

I wrote a little patch that use libagar.


[+]

* No heavy dependencies like gtk or qt4, only SDL and Freetype

* It's C lib and can be easy scripted wia lua

* Fast gui renderer (Did you try to move cel's gtk dialog window on slow machine?)

[-]

* A little fps drop

* I'm not sure is it possible to use agar with others front-ends, if no --- lua scripting may be uselessness

If the community is interested I can continue to work on agar+cel.

[jdavies]

Just an FYI, Celestia uses LUA for its scripting engine also. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Scripting for more details.

Since you mentioned GTK I take it that you are running on LINUX or some UNIX variant? The graphics are pretty robust on my Win XP laptop. Is GTK known to be a bit slow in general?

- Jeff