Michael Jones (mtj++at++babar)
Tue, 21 Feb 1995 07:14:01 -0800
:I think the new inventor loader really uses the inventor library, while
:as the old one was a self contained hack and didn't use Inventor DSO's.
Ed's exactly right on this, and it's a great thing about OpenInventor
that I wish other higher-level graphics systems provided: a self-
describing traversal. This lets you extract the excat polygons that
would be drawn by Inventor "Cone" or "Text3d" nodes.
In the next version of IRIS Performer, the loaders are DSO's that
each link with whatever libraries (OpenInventor eoe, IL eoe, etc.)
that they need so the main application program (such as Perfly)
will not need to be aware of this layered relationship.
By the way, the bug reports and comments about the OpenInventor
loader seemed to stop with the advent of the latest (1.3) version on
our ftp site. If you have inventor models, and have not downloaded
the loader yet, please give it a try and let us know if you see any
problems.
Thanks,
Michael Jones
P.S. Don't forget to put -lInventor on your link line ;-)
--Be seeing you, Phone:415.390.1455 Fax:415.965.2658 M/S:8U-590 Michael T. Jones Silicon Graphics, Advanced Graphics Division mtj++at++sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
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