On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Lars J. Aas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:56:00AM +0800, Ang Bodhi wrote:
> : "Lars J. Aas" wrote:
> : > Anyways, if you still want to try, you have SoQt, SoGtk, SoXt and an
> : > almost functional SoWin at www.coin3d.org. You have SGI's SoXt (which
> : > TGS probably have worked further on and should be considered a separate
> : > branch), TGS' SoWin, Ang Bodhi's SoGtk, and there is also an SoXt
> : > implementation for another Inventor clone called Scene (but I think it's
> : > safe to consider that project dead now). There are probably more, and
> : > the family will expand even further in the future...
> :
> : Scene is my previous effort to clone OI, well, it is now stopped. There
> : were an SoXt and SoGtk lib then, but there is no point to use them now.
> : The experience of wrting an SoGtk for Scene is used to write this
> : current SoGtk lib, with a little code reuse too :-)
>
> Right. I confused you with Guy Barrand who is the author of SoFree (yet
> another Open Inventor clone). SoFree also comes with an SoGtk library :)
> (which is why I was confused) amongst others, and I believe he even has
> it running on Windows. It seems like the SoFree effort may have stopped
> too, though.
For info ; SoFree (and coworking SoGtk, SoQt, SoAwt packages) are
still alive. The plan is to pass our software
(we do visualization for high energy physic experiments) that uses
SoFree to the free SGI Inventor when possible.
The problem is that with SoFree I am able to install/run fluently on
Windows and a bunch of UNIXes (Linux, OSF1, SunOS, HP-UX) along with
the support of a bunch of GUI (Xm, Win32, gtk, Qt and now java/awt (a
hell to have that !)).
Our plan will be to migrate our software to something else,
but we must check that we are able to run in same conditions
that what we have today (especially on Windows)... The idea will be to
migrate first to a more free richer kernel (the non GUI things) than
the SoFree one (our things run already with the SGI Inventor
kernel on Linux) and then, in a second step, to migrate perhaps to
other gtk, qt, Win32, java GUI front end ; my guess is that probably
one year will be needed for us before waving goodbye to SoFree
and coworking packages.
About the gtk, Qt, Win32 (and java ?) GUI front ends, it is clear
that I strongly support any other tentative that will be included in
the SGI Inventor distrib ; it will be less work for me in the future...
Regards
Guy Barrand
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