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[sdljava-users] Forget that old patch.. here is a better one ;)

[Chris D. <Des...@nt...>]

Ignore the old patch if you haven't already applied it (I'm pretty sure 
you haven't), as I've significantly worked on a number of areas tonight, 
including adding a new SDLPoint class having the SDLRect class extend 
from it, and the previous changes I made are also rolled into this patch.

Something I saw which might be significant, however, is that all the 
positional stuff we need is actually in javax.vecmath, including 
3DPoint, if you are using that for the OpenGL modelling stuff.(See 
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDevelopers/j3dapi/javax/vecmath/package-summary.html). 
Using this would save us reinventing the wheel, but might incur an extra 
download cost for the user.

I also notice that you have Vector.java which is meant to hold a 
coordiante in 3D space. However, you forget that vectors also have 
length and direction.

By the way, is there an SDLJava IRC channel we could go to to discuss 
stuff? Somewhere on OpenProjects / FreeNode, perhaps? ;) Anyway, my new 
patch is attached to this message, with many modifications. Again, tell 
me if there is anything wrong with it.

Regards,
Chris

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Re: [sdljava-users] Forget that old patch.. here is a better one ;)

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

The 3D api looks interesting.  I'll have a look into this.  Certainly if 
we don' t have to re-write all the code it would be good.  From what I 
see so far I think we might want to use it.  If we do end up using it 
then it is simply added to lib directory -- user will never have to 
download it.

The 3D API in sdljava is growing slowly and carefully.  I want to make 
sure its ideal and as fast as possible.  Its not really ready for prime 
time use hence there will be things omitted in various places.

-Ivan/

Chris Dennett wrote:

> Ignore the old patch if you haven't already applied it (I'm pretty 
> sure you haven't), as I've significantly worked on a number of areas 
> tonight, including adding a new SDLPoint class having the SDLRect 
> class extend from it, and the previous changes I made are also rolled 
> into this patch.
>
> Something I saw which might be significant, however, is that all the 
> positional stuff we need is actually in javax.vecmath, including 
> 3DPoint, if you are using that for the OpenGL modelling stuff.(See 
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDevelopers/j3dapi/javax/vecmath/package-summary.html). 
> Using this would save us reinventing the wheel, but might incur an 
> extra download cost for the user.
>
> I also notice that you have Vector.java which is meant to hold a 
> coordiante in 3D space. However, you forget that vectors also have 
> length and direction.
>
> By the way, is there an SDLJava IRC channel we could go to to discuss 
> stuff? Somewhere on OpenProjects / FreeNode, perhaps? ;) Anyway, my 
> new patch is attached to this message, with many modifications. Again, 
> tell me if there is anything wrong with it.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>

Re: [sdljava-users] Forget that old patch.. here is a better one ;)

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

In anwer to your other questions there isn't yet an IRC channel.  Maybe 
in the future.  For now there are only a few full time developers and we 
are all in different time zones.  When one sleeps the other is coding ;-)

-Ivan/

Chris Dennett wrote:

> Ignore the old patch if you haven't already applied it (I'm pretty 
> sure you haven't), as I've significantly worked on a number of areas 
> tonight, including adding a new SDLPoint class having the SDLRect 
> class extend from it, and the previous changes I made are also rolled 
> into this patch.
>
> Something I saw which might be significant, however, is that all the 
> positional stuff we need is actually in javax.vecmath, including 
> 3DPoint, if you are using that for the OpenGL modelling stuff.(See 
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDevelopers/j3dapi/javax/vecmath/package-summary.html). 
> Using this would save us reinventing the wheel, but might incur an 
> extra download cost for the user.
>
> I also notice that you have Vector.java which is meant to hold a 
> coordiante in 3D space. However, you forget that vectors also have 
> length and direction.
>
> By the way, is there an SDLJava IRC channel we could go to to discuss 
> stuff? Somewhere on OpenProjects / FreeNode, perhaps? ;) Anyway, my 
> new patch is attached to this message, with many modifications. Again, 
> tell me if there is anything wrong with it.
>
> Regards,
> Chris