First, appologies for just throwing these out. Without the archives I
don't know if these have been addressed already.
A year or so ago I tried to use Inventor from TGS under Linux. I ran into
4 problems that seem to also be in the base code just released. I don't
have the fixes I wrote anymore and before I dive in and do it all again I
thought it better to see if they are already being worked on (or if
different directions are being taken).
1) Dynamic loading. I remember that I could fix this by a simple hack of
the .a and .so files to change the pattern used in the name passed to
dlopen et.al.
2) Fonts. I remember this being a byte order problem (in the X fonts, I
don't remember fixing the Adobe fonts). I got by last time by re-compiling
fonts (with mixed success). This one tought me the fine points of strace.
3) Math headers. I remember adding an ifdef into SoBasic.h (or something
like that).
4) Motif widget problems when using Lesstif. In the rpms running on RH62
and Lesstif0.91, the sliders and color patches never draw. (you can work
them, just can not see them). Also several toggle buttons core dump the
SceneViewer. (color and material editors have the problems).
I don't remember if I fixed this in Inventor's widgets or in Lesstif.
But I do remember spending a lot of time here a learning a lot of Inventor
that was not in the book :-) I also remember that even when working, the
sliders would be rendered 1 pixel off (Mesa bug?). (I also remember
dumping the Xt widgets and using glut w/Inventor instead).
So, are there any patches for any of these yet?
Thanks (for listening and for releasing the source :-)
scott
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