[Plib-users] viewer & Openflight file loading problem

[Marc C. <Com...@as...>]

All,

Can anyone suggest reasons why I cannot seem to coax the 1.8.1 example pr=
ogram
'viewer' to load a sample openflight file?

I can get the viewer.exe to load and view 'tuxedo.ac' after making a data
directory & copying tuxedo.ac into ./data.  The viewer works great with t=
hat,
but when I try to load a simple Openflight file, it reports the filename =
(I
picked) along with:  "The system cannot find the path specified."

The file is definitely there and has all 'rw' permissions.  From tcsh, I =
can 'ls
-l' the file and it shows up as:

   -rw-rw-rw-    1 comperem mkpasswd   241452 Jun 10 22:17
/tmp/plib_examples-1.8.1/src/ssg/viewer/data/sphere.flt

It appears that the ssgLoad() function does not give a valid 'obj' pointe=
r from
within viewer.cxx.

Any suggestions?  Anyone had similar experiences?

Thanks in advance,
Marc Compere


I got the sample 'sphere.flt' by downloading and renaming 'output.flt' fr=
om
http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/ESM4714/Student_Proj/class00/malhotra/3DSIMA=
G/HTML/project.html.
 I know this is a good .flt file b/c I can import it in Okino's Nugraf de=
mo
sowtware.

I am using the latest and greatest Cygwin utilities on Windows XP and com=
piled
the 1.8.3 plib without error.  Did this with './configure ; make ; make
install'.  Also, I compiled the 1.8.1 examples without major errors using
'./configure ; make'

Executing 'uname -a' generates:
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tensor 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unkn=
own
Cygwin