Re: Interfacing rapidapp with performer

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Randy Stiles (stiles++at++aic.lockheed.com)
Wed, 21 May 1997 17:48:30 -0700

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Anita Kishore wrote:
>
> On May 20, 10:23pm, Ramya D. wrote:
> > Subject: Interfacing rapidapp with performer
> > Hi,
> > I would like to know 2 things
> > 1) Can we use inventor and Performer calls in an application without any
> > poblems?
> >
>
> You can combine Inventor and Performer in one application only if they are in
> different processes (related or unrelated). Generally, you would want to use
> Inventor for the GUI part and performer as the main renderer.

Don't know about rapidapp, do know a bit about Inventor and performer
used together.

I don't think this is the case. The Inventor loader for Performer
is peppered with calls to both Performer, and Inventor functions.
Indeed, it works by using Inventor to load the inventor file, build
a scene graph, then traverses the Inventor scene graph building a
corresponding Performer scene graph.

The Inventor shared libraries are loaded into the performer executable
when the inventor loader is used. It is to my knowledge all in the
same process (app)

Take a look at
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpfiv/pfiv.C

-Randy

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