Shader API and Java String

[Tomas]

Hi,

I was playing with some glsl coding and to my suprise I found that the LWJGL implementation of some function don't use java Strings ?

  glBindAttribLocation(int program, int index, ByteBuffer name);
  glShaderSource(int shader, ByterBuffer string);

Why don't these functions use regular Java String as the last argument ? Is there a good reason or am I missing something. It feels kind of counter productive to push and pop strings in and out of bytebuffers.

Cheers
// Tomas

[spasi]

The latest LWJGL version provides alternate versions for both of these methods, with CharSequence arguments (String implements CharSequence). Many other alternate methods are supported, see this thread for details.

[Tomas]

Sweet