The only extra feature of the old (very old, that's true) OpenInvetor viewer
was the capability to mix the OpenGL image generated by ROOT with the
external 3D files with Open Inventor format. The later may include the
animated components also.
Jus my 2 cents.
----
Best regards
Valeri
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]
On
> Behalf Of Rene Brun
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: Christian Holm Christensen
> Cc: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] TPGON and OpenGL - X3D and Shift interface
>
> Christian,
>
> I cannot comment on Castor. The installation procedure works OK on Unix
systems
> and Windows. This is OK.
>
> Concerning TViewerOIV: it is our intention to discontinue the support
> for this viewer. Our effort is going to TViewerOpenGL. This class provides
far
> more functionality than the old OI viewer.
>
> Rene brun
>
> Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rene,
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:48 +0100, Rene Brun wrote:
> > > Christian,
> > >
> > > You forgot the attachements concerning your problem with TPGON.
> >
> > I think they came with a later mail, didn't they? Anyway, Olivier has
> > fixed it.
> >
> > > About shift, the situation is quite messy.
> > > When you import the new shift, you get the Castor library.
> > > On my system I have installed shift/Castor in my $HOME/Castor and I
set
> > > --with-shift-incdir=$HOME/castor/include/shift \
> > > --with-shift-libdir=$HOME/castor/lib
> >
> > Sorry, I don't get this. What do you mean `When you import the new
> > shift, you get the Castor library.' Do you mean, that one should get
> > the CASTOR libraries (which then presumably contains the SHIFT library)?
> > And from where should one `import' the new SHIFT library? Is it at
> >
> > http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/castor/
> >
> > If so, I think you should update `README/INSTALL' to reflect this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > BTW, I think a `Savannah'-like page for all CERN based software is an
> > excellent idea. It gives a one-point access to all relavent stuff.
> > Just too bad that not all projects really use the facility well, use
> > `weird' licenses, and so on. Also, it could create the kin of `synergy'
> > that has really helped the FLOSS community a lot.
> >
> > > > Missing libOIV?:
> > > > ----------------
> > > >
> > > > In the default `etc/root/system.rootrc' there's the line
> > > >
> > > > +Plugin.TVirtualViewer3D: oiv TViewerOIV OIV
> "TViewerOIV(TVirtualPad*)"
> > > >
> > > > However, the library `libOIV' isn't build, and there's no dictionary
> > > > created for the `TViewerOIV' class, so this line is (double)
> > > > meaningless.
> >
> > What about this issue?
> >
> > I think the resolution will be to create the library `libOIV' and
> > generate dictionaries for the needed classes (I guess it's only
> > `TViewerOIV' that really needs a dictionary).
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > --
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