glut message lopp - how to break / user define (important for opensource port)

i have posted my question in the advanced opengl programming forum:
http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/Forum3/HTML/006353.html

could please someone help me how/if/why not one can write its own message loop for glut ?

Originally posted by herc:
[b]i have posted my question in the advanced opengl programming forum:
http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/Forum3/HTML/006353.html

could please someone help me how/if/why not one can write its own message loop for glut ?[/b]

see your previous post which I responded too. glutMainLoopUpdate is what you need.

Regards,
Jim

Please check
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rpf1/glut.html

This has info and source directly addressing
your question …

Rob.