Guy Barrand wrote:
>
> Hello Inventors
>
> In the previous mails about handling
> GUI front ends for Inventor, someone mention
> the writting of specific widgets for Inventor
> (I think it was Lars about having a GtkExaminerViewer
> for gtk+).
>
> In fact, I think that this is the right way to proceed.
Whole-heartly agreed.
> In fact what is needed is to be able to isolate the code
> that handles the "scene" management logic attached
> to viewers (for example animation, camera finding/setting)
> that are in the SoXtViewer, SoXtExaminerviewer classes
> and is then duplicated when doing the SoGtk, SoQt versions.
SIM's (Lars) SoAny* classes are sort of an attempt into this
direction, but ..
> Then I think that something like some "SoViewerManager,
> SoExaminerViewerManager,..."
> classes. to handle "viewer scene management" would be very welcome
> and would ease the development of the various widgets for Xt, gtk+, qt,
> Windows, awt etc...
Excellent proposal.
FWIW: IMO, it's long overdue to start such an effort and to bring
together all the different and competing InventorXt ports.
Ralf
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