openvrml-develop

[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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Re: [openvrml-develop] Status: openvrml-player

[Reed H. <re...@in...>]

Great, this will be really useful also as a reference check when writing 
other viewers using openvrml without having to set up the MOzilla stuff.

Reed


Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 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.
> 

Re: [openvrml-develop] Status: openvrml-player

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

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 07:14 -0500, Reed Hedges wrote:
> Great, this will be really useful also as a reference check when writing 
> other viewers using openvrml without having to set up the MOzilla stuff.

Well... It will be another example of using openvrml-gtkplug. It will
also be a reasonable example of how to integrate libcurl with the
GLib/GTK+ main loop. But it will offer no respite from the relatively
complex implementation of openvrml::resource_istream in
openvrml-gtkplug. In other words, it won't be of too much help for
someone who, for example, wants to learn how to use libcurl with
openvrml in the same process.

So openvrml-player won't obviate the need to extend the sdl-viewer
example to use libcurl (in order to show people how to do that).

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