[simspark-devel] APL Update

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Hi,


Just a few things...

1) Joschka and I have reflected on the design and decided that we want to
employ the physicsserver and use it as the (exclusive) interface between
the physics classes and the rest of simspark. Right now, the RSGImporter
creates physics objects by itself and adds them to the scene graph, and we
want to move this functionality to the physicsserver. The physicsserver
will also be in charge of creating implementation objects, so the
ImpFactory will be completely removed over the course of this.

2) Thanks to Hedayat's input, I was able to get rid of the
staticphysicsmethods class completely. :-) I'm actually very happy about
this, since this was the workaround I felt the most uncomfortable about.

3) It turned out that deriving engine-specific classes from the
engine-unspecific version of their superclass does not help me fix the
Joint problem. I'm now contemplating undoing this change - it doesn't harm
the functionality or the performance, but it "feels" weird and it causes
engine-specific classes to be derivied from BaseNode, which is something
we said we wanted to avoin in the beginning.

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4) Right now, all header files in the /int and /ode directories are
completely undocumented. Doing this would be redundant, as the methods
that the calls are delegated to usually have the same name and the same
functionality as the documented method which calls them. I.e. I would just
be copy-pasting most comments. I assume I'll have to do this anyway,
though, because it's good sport, right? ;-)

5) In the standard text that precedes each source file, I find a line like:

"$Id: boxcollider.h 155 2010-02-01 05:08:06Z a-held $"

I observed that SVN updates this line automatically when the file is
changed in a commit. However, no matter what I do, this does not work for
new files. So what do I do with them?



thanks,

Andreas