Hi Robert, I would suggest dividing the 'examples' directory into multiple subdirectories, each representing a kind of demonstrations. For example, we may move osganimate and osganimation* into an 'animation' subdirectory; osgvnc, osgbrowser, osgpdf and osgwidget* into a '3dgui'; osgviewer* into a 'viewer'; capturing examples into a 'capture'; and new and uncertain ones into an 'unsorted', etc. The only trouble is to have a suitable classification strategy.
IMHO, this will help end users look for a technique they are interested in, and make choices among a limited range of implementations, instead of searching over 140 examples. And I would say that osgautocapture, osgscreencapture and osgposter are all distinctive examples, which may be extremely useful sometime, but inappropriate in other cases. Why not let users themselves decide the best one to work? :) Cheers, Wang Rui 2009/11/24 Robert Osfield <[email protected]>: > Hi Guys, > > I'm ready to review osgposter but I'm struck by the issue of OSG > example duplication - we already have two examples that illustrate > screen capture - osgautocapture that specializes in loaded the highest > res tiles of a paged database then capturing the image, and > osgscreencapture that can record a series of frames. osgposter is > different from these in pure function, but... perhaps we should be > combining a two or more of these examples to avoid confusing end users > about which technique to use. > > There is also the possibility of wrapping up some of this capability > into osgViewer to work as a convenience method for capturing > screenshots. We have an osgViewer::ScreenCaptureHandler that can > capture a single frame, perhaps this needs generalize this and then > have examples that use it rather than their own custom > implementations. > > Thoughts? > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-submissions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-submissions-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-submissions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-submissions-openscenegraph.org
