On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:05 -0500, Max Bandazian wrote: > > Jeremy, > > > Having used osgWidget extensively, I second what everyone has said
I would definitely be interested most in the opinions of people who have used osgWidget most. :) > above, that the input processing/picking ought to be factored out of > the WindowManager into a separate class. osgWidget is a nice > contribution to osg, but it does have a lot of instances like this > where modularity could be improved. Input processing/picking is a > tricky thing, and it would be great to have an easy setup for swapping > in my own input handler; for instance, by default the topmost picked > widget is selected, but I might want to pick through pixels that are > textured transparent. This is not a bad idea, but I'm not sure I fully understand how you want them divorced. You're absolutely right that there is currently no "easy" way to pick through a transparent pixel. Perhaps the answer here is not to break it apart, but make creating derived WindowManagers easier? > Since you're in a refactoring mood, I also want to mention that the > biggest thing you could do to improve osgWidget is get rid of all uses > of the friend keyword. It's not good in a toolkit, especially an alpha > version toolkit, as it is mostly impossible to extend/override/bugfix > the existing stuff by inheritance. For my own project, I needed to > inherit from some of the widget classes and had to build my own > friendless version as a result. This would be easy to get rid of, and something I could do quickly. > I can make a more extensive list of ''suggested improvements'' if you > want :) Please do. :) The results of this discussion thread will determine if I am way over my head or not with osgWidget. It may turn out that I've tackled a project much larger than my understanding, and need to scrap it entirely. :( > - Max Bandazian > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
