[Animabob-announce] animabob-announce: AnimaBob 1.3.5 Released

[Grant E. <eri...@um...>]

AnimaBob
Version 1.3.5 Released

Latest Release

The latest release, version 1.3.5, is available at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D195178&package_id=3D230=
3
73&release_id=3D512151

1.3.5

The latest release of AnimaBob, 1.3.5, largely focuses on integrating
TrueColor visual support for Icol and integrating instance/group invocation
support from the Karolinska Institutet and 3TAG AB teams. Other changes
include:

* Consolidated and updated the Icol reference page.
* Cleaned-up pixel mode and polygon rate set-up code in AnimaBob.
* Placed AnimaBob and Icol application defaults files under GNU autoconf
management to auto-extract out the version number.
* Re-enabled commented-out code which prevented Icol from switching from
RGB/HSV/YUV to alpha mode and back again.
* Added autoconf macro and test for compiler-specific warnings and added
them to CFLAGS for AnimaBob and Icol.
* Tweaked AnimaBob and Icol application defaults to work more consistently
across different X and Motif/CDE/LessTif environments.
* Coding style clean-ups.
* Compiler warning clean-ups.
* Moved Remove{Help,Cancel} routines, common to both AnimaBob and Icol, to
the common support library.

> Visuals
>=20
> A few notes about visuals are in order. With the addition of TrueColor su=
pport
> to Icol from from 3TAG and Karolinska Institutet team, TrueColor support =
now
> co-exists dynamically with the legacy PseudoColor support for those who r=
un on
> systems which provide or require it.
>=20
> Such support included adding a '-visual <visual class name>' command line
> option for those who have both True- and PseudoColor visuals and want to
> specify precisely which to use.
>=20
> While the visual used is ultimately limited by the local X server and sys=
tem
> hardware, in order to determine which X
> display screen visual to use, Icol now attempts to find a visual as follo=
ws:
>=20
> 1. Heed the root visual (-rootvis) option and attempt to use it.
> 2. Heed the visual option (-visual) and attempt to use it.
> 3. Failing or in the absence of (1) and (2), attempt to find the deepest
> PseudoColor visual, if available; otherwise, the deepest TrueColor visual=
.
> This is the default behavior.

Next Steps

* Implement support for coarse-grained parallel processing with the POSIX
threads (aka pthreads) library in addition to SGI Irix's m_fork et al or
single-threaded operation.
* Fix up volume to background blending when =8C-voxbg=B9 is used.
* Finish clean-up and reorganization of documentation and manual pages.
* Bring raz/xraz up-to-date and into the world of OpenGL and modern support
packages.