Hi Torben, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Torben Dannhauer <[email protected]> wrote: > If I Remember right, Wang wrote in the context of the serializer > introduction, that a wrapper/introspection could be build up on that > technique. > I'm not sure if I remember right, but could this be a solution to maintain a > kind of introspection/wrapper functionality and to move the current > osgIntropsection out of the core?
Wang Rui's new serializers do certainly overlap with osgIntrospection in terms of ability to push/pull properties from the OSG, but the serializers aren't currently built for querying individual properties or invoking methods. There is potential there. Wang Rui's serializers are much lighter weight and more efficient than osgIntrospection which is a real advantage. My experience has been that hand maintained wrappers (such as the .osg plugin) have turned out to be far easier to maintain than the automatically generated ones, so while genwrapper/osgIntrospection would appear to be very powerful and useful, their complexity and awkwardness w.r.t maintenance have held us back. I believe the complexity of osgIntrospection has also hindered it's adoption in the community - very few projects seem to use it, even the OSG itself never used it internally. Cheers, Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
