Just to avoid any possible ambiguity. The TViewerOpenGL class is our main line of development with OpenGL and it works on Unix, Windows and Mac. Rene Brun "Faine, Valeri" wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > Just a comment about Open Inventor viewer. Another version of OpenInventor > viewer based on Coin3D and Qt ROOT layer that works on Windows, Mac and X11 > platforms (the version Rene meant worked for X11 only) is available and will > remain available with the Qt ROOT Extensions from BNL CVS repository. > > The Qt-based viewers (OpenGL and OI) provide the various image formats both > pixels as well as the high resolution ps > > See: http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/QtRoot.html#features > http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/StarCompleteView.png > http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/StarBombView.pdf > http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/GeomBrowserMain.png > > etc > > I would like to hear too from the user of the old X11 OpenInventor viewer > users whether they want it. > > Please submit your comment to fine@bnl.gov or to this list. > > Thank you > > Just my 2 cents. > > Valeri > > > > OK. Why not remove the code from CVS, as it's not functional at all? > > > > > > The new OpenGL viewer is indeed very nice. A few questions: > > > > > > * However, I really miss the possibility of saving the current > > > scene to a file (.eps, .gif, .jpg, .svg, or what not) - but I > > > guess I'm not the first to raise that point :-) And I'm sure > > > you're dealing with it. > > > * Would it be possible to hide the light sources too? Ofcourse, > > > one can simply turn them off, but that removes the light too. > > > * In the attached script (a simplified version of the the ALICE > > > FMD3 geometry), the XTRU objects are not drawn right when you > > > look from the nose of the support cone, while they look find > > > when viewed from the back of the cone. When I turn on wireframe > > > display in the OpenGL viewer, I see that the XTRU objects > > > contain more lines than I've defined. It seems that one of the > > > triangles that make up the XTRU object is `dominating'. > > > > > > The new Ged classes are very nice too. A few questions: > > > > > > * I miss the buttons `Ok', `Apply', and `Cancel' (and possibly in > > > `Close') in the pop-ups. > > > * Also, sometimes, the pop-ups do not have a title bar and some > > > times they do. > > > * When enabling the editor, the canvas may be too small to hold > > > the full interface, in which case, one has to turn off the > > > auto-resize option and manually make the canvas larger. It > > > would be nice if there was a scrollbar instead. > > > > > > [I should probably say that I'm using GNOME 2.8 with metacity] > > > > > > Yours, > > > > > > -- > > > ___ | Christian Holm Christensen > > > |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > > > _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 > > > _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 > > > ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > > > | | > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > > Name: simpleGeometry.C > > > simpleGeometry.C Type: text/x-c++src > > > Encoding: 7bit
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