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April 30, 2003	TkOGL 3.2 is now available and is fully installable under Debian Linux via GNU Autotools and Windows 2000 via an install wizard. Version 3.2 supports Tcl/Tk 8.4 and OpenGL 1.3. Go to the Download page to download the latest binaries and source code.
April 15, 2003	New TkOGL website is launched with fully supported documentation and source code.

Development Revisions

Since the original version of TkOGL was released by Claudio Esperanca in 1997, three major revisions have been made. The changes made in each will be briefly detailed here.

Organization - EECE 285 students - Henry Cheng, Freddy Cheung, Eugene Lau, Eve MacGregor, Farnoush Mirmoeini and Granaz Ziaghazvini

Developed official website for TkOGL version 3.0
Created an installation wizard to install TkOGL
Made changes to the opengl and openglu source codes to allow package index files to be generated for all three .dlls
Converted selected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance demos from TkOGL version 1.0 to 3.0

Version 3.0 - EECE 496 student - Joel Joyner

Added support for drawing fonts in the TkOGL window
Divided opengl.dll into opengl.dll and openglu.dll. The AUX functions of OpenGL were also eliminated from the libraries
Because of revisions to the TkOGL code, some original code became unnecessary and was eliminated

Version 2.0 - EECE 285 students - Henry Chan, Geoffrey Clark, Frank Ho, Erin Lim, Ivan Sun, Nicholas Tsang, Herbert Wong and Kin Yeung

The command calling structure of OpenGL was changed so that the original structure of the OpenGL commands could be maintained
Elimination of the need for display lists
Implementation of support for multiple TkOGL windows
Additions made so that users working in double buffered mode could explicitly swap buffers