Re: Interfacing rapidapp with performer
Anita Kishore (kishore++at++triavest.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 09:52:25 -0700
On May 21, 5:48pm, Randy Stiles wrote:
> Subject: Re: Interfacing rapidapp with performer
> 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
>
Oops, yes you are right. I correct my previous statement :
You need to use two processes only if you want to use X/Motif with performer.
Sorry for the confusion.
-anita
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