Hi Robert, About David Guthries implementation, it was indeed posted on the osg-users ml. Here is a link to this thread : http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11636#11636 Cheers, Loïc
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Robert Osfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm mainly just tracking this thread trying to get a feel for what's > working an what's not, and who might be able to help refine the right > approach. So for nothing concrete has jumped out.. > > 2009/5/13 René Molenaar <[email protected]>: > > Have you seen David Guthries implementation (posted a few days ago), it > uses > > windowsystemwrapper to integrate osg/qt? > > No I haven't, was this posted on osg-users? Did I miss it spinning > past a 100 knots? > > I don't know if it's related, but one design aspect to osgViewer which > was built in front the start is the > osg::GraphicsContext::WindowSystemInterface which provides the > abstraction away from the implementation. This interface class was > the potential of having multiple implementations, and for the > implementations to be moved out into plugins, just like we have > plugins for databases and wrappers right now. > > For ease of building and running OSG apps I didn't go for the full > plugin approach from WindowSystemInterface, rather allowed > implementations from X11, Win32, Carbon and Cocoa to be imbeded > directly into the osgViewer. This means you only have to link against > osgViewer to get a viewer up on the screen, but it does mean that the > library itself isn't as flexible w.r.t dynamically loading the > implementations. It wouldn't be a great deal of work to do this > though. Or perhaps we could still have the inbuilt implementations, > but allow plugins to add extra ones. > > A plugin for Qt support would certainly be possible. Potentially one > could even compile the core osgViewer library without any default > implementation and rely on such a plugin, or change the default > implementation that one compiles against. > > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- Loïc Simon
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