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Re: Spaceorb support

To: guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Guido Heumer)
Subject: Re: Spaceorb support
From: jlim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Lim)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:48:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011081322190.8425-100000@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au> from "Guido Heumer" at Nov 08, 2000 01:32:03 PM
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On Tue Nov  7 18:32:03 2000, guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> SoXtSpaceorb has the same interface as SoXtSpaceball and worked fine
> with the demos for the latter. Just the classname had to be replaced.
> I also wrote some additional methods to include null-region support.
> 
> Is there any interest to include my code in the Open Inventor repository?
> Then I could e-mail it to you. I know that it could be problem, that
> the code doesn't work for IRIX, however if there's a Spaceorb driver
> for IRIX X somebody could include it or make the code architecture-
> sensitive so that the exists() method always returns FALSE for IRIX.

What I'm thinking of is to create a contrib directory in the CVS repository
where new features such as the one you're proposing can be placed. Just be sure
you have accompanying documentation and makefiles that work with the existing
ones.


              Jonathan Lim  _  Silicon Graphics  _  Mountain View
              GPS Graphics     Computer Systems        CA, USA

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