[openvrml-develop] Status: openvrml-player

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

Debugging OpenVRML's resource loading in the Mozilla plug-in has made it
clear to me that I need a more convenient way of doing that. The Web
browser is a heavy piece of machinery that tends to get in the way when
trying to pinpoint a problem. It would also help to have something that
just works a bit differently in order to better sanity-check the code in
libopenvrml.

That is the self-interested reason for introducing a stand-alone viewer;
though I suspect a number of users would find this convenient as well
for their own reasons.

Like the Mozilla plug-in, openvrml-player--the stand-alone viewer--will
simply be a front-end to openvrml-gtkplug. It will use GTK/GNOME for its
user interface and libcurl for resource fetching.

I'm probably still a few weeks away from checking anything in; but the
current plan is for this to go into 0.16.3.

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Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <br...@en...>
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