[Fluxus] Getting shaders working

[Dave Griffiths]

>
>> OK - another newbie question.
>>
>>   My fluxus seems to work fine except I can't get anything other than
>> the
>> default shader working. All objects are just drawn with the default
>> shader no matter what you specify.
>>
>>   Any suggestions?
>
> The main think I can think of is that fluxus shaders require OpenGL 2.0 -
> does your driver support that?
>
>>   One related thing that I find odd. If you secify files that obviously
>> don't exist in the "shader" procedure it doesn't report any kind of
>> error.
>
> If shading isn't enabled (due to the driver not supporting it), the code
> doesn't get that far, so it wouldn't return an error. It might be a bug if
> it is enabled though - it's quite a recent feature.

... and yes, it would be nice to have a function which returns the status
of the hardware shading being supported or not ...

for the moment glxinfo should tell you (via the OpenGL version string)

cheers,

dave