This type of exposure is what we are looking at for one part of extensibility in Java 3D 1.4.
Doug. >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Geometry Types >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 > >Doug Twilleager wrote: >> The big part that is miising is explicit low level buffer >> control - something like you suggested below. We could do >> it in the current system, but how we allocate buffers would >> be just a best guess. We would need new API to let the application >> help tell us which buffers were most important. This is one of >> the possible additions we are looking at for 1.4. So, no there >> in no reason we can't do it today, but we need some new buffer >> control API's to complete the story. > >It seems to be a piece of code quite independent from rest of system. In >fact buffer control api could be developed independent from java3d by >'third party'. Of course java3d-endorsed standard would be best, but for >the time being... > >I know that this is probably too late for 1.3, but maybe 1.3.1 or >something like that ? I'm not talking about buffer api, just about some >property flag for java3d, which would tell it to use asynchronous >loading of all NIO+BY-REF geometry. Somebody else would write open >source buffer management, which you could later use or drop in 1.4. > >Artur > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
