I compile a simulation on my linux box, run it, FTP it to my Windows box, double click the executable and it runs. No problems.
C#'s a nice language. OSG is a nice Scene Graph. Don't give me reasons to keep on using DirectX :)
Philip Hahn
On 11/13/06, Robert Osfield <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
C# and OSG. Ack, here's the equation:
platform lock-in + cross platform == platform lock-in
Which is kinda sucky loosing all that loverly portability.
Why not Java and OSG, or Python or Lua and OSG?
However, I do concede that some users, for some reason want or perhaps even have to use non portable developer environments. For what ever reason C# ends up on the table in some developer groups.
Wrapping the whole OSG with some kinda of managed C++ wrapper is going to be expensive on initial set up and later maintenance. osgIntrospection does away with this, especially for dynamic languages like Lua and Python, as only what is need to wrap is exposed at runtime.
C# isn't a dynamic language so you won't be able to do such a light weight wrapper, but my guess is that you should be able automated much of the C# wrapper generation as an automated pre processor set with a custom wrapper generator loading the osgWrappers to get what is required to wrap. Perhaps one could nominate which parts you want wrapping.
Or alternatively, switch on to using a dynamic language for integrating with the OSG, and integrate with C# with the dynamic language instead. Do all the key OSG controls in Lua/Python, and high level app stuff in C#.
C# really is just MS's version of Java, and Java is a streamlined C++ and both a static typed just like C++ so is no more powerful. While they have great IDE support, the languages themselves aren't really a paradigm shift, or give the programmer any great power. Whereas, Python and Lua are huge paradigm shift in programming languages, its simply stunning how simple that can tackle problems that are nightmare of static typed languages.
The added bonus is that you can still have all that loverly portability with next to no effort.
Robert.
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