Re: DBASE process
Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:46:08 -0700
On Jul 25, 11:02am, DONKERS H.C. wrote:
> Subject: Re: DBASE process
> > When you say editing are you just changing vertex information etc, or do
> > you for example need to create large ammounts of data, do heavy compute &
> > read from disk?
> When I said editing, I meant that I do a lot off pruning and adding
> of nodes within the pfScene.
> And I can't prune the graph from a different process than the process
> that calls pfFrame, because then I could have changed the graph from
> the other process between the Cull and Draw phase.
> (am I still making sense?)
>
> Why do you want seperate processes then, you might ask.
> Well, both processes (not the process calling pfFrame) pruning the
> graph, also do some heave computatioins, and I would like them
> seperately (sproc'd) also for 'maintainability' of my code.
>
> BTW, is adding and removing of nodes the only operation I cannot do
> in a seperate process? I can imagine that I *CAN* change geoset
> information from another process. Maybe that info gets through one
> pfFrame later, but it wouldn't crash the program.
> Am I right?
Yes, although you can build an entire sub graph in a dbase process and
Also any geoset attribute edits happen instantly, unless you used some
buffering mechanism.
Cheers,Angus.
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