Folks, Steve and I are about to do another large scale update of the J3D FAQ. There are a number of things on the cards so I thought I'd give you some heads up and a bunch of requests for information. The major thing to note is a re-arrangement of parts of the FAQ. Under consideration at the moment are sections on: 3D Video Cards Problems and information. For example, this section will talk about various driver problems etc that might effect either a purchasing decision or debugging. Classic example is the current CL/DMM TNT thread. Note that this section is _not_ going to be a "We recommend you buy this Video Card" write up. It is solely aimed at pointing out current problems. Having said that, we'd like to put in a section that points to references where you can look up this sort of information. If you have information on this (web sites, good magazine articles etc) please send that information to me privately for inclusion on the FAQ (address at the bottom of the page). Tutorials/Books List There is currently a small reference on this but we'd like to break these out into a much higher definition set of lists. If you have pointers to online tutorials and also books in the works please send me email privately for inclusion in the page (please don't send me Dave Nadeau's tutorial site I've already got that one....). Tutorials don't need to be completely encompassing all of J3D. Task specific tutorials such as writing an input device handler are eagerly sought. Using J3D in IDEs A section devoted to getting J3D working with various IDE's out there. I've got it running with JBuilder, but we'd like to recieve tips on how to do it with the others that are around out there. In particular, Visual Cafe, CodeWarrior and Visual Age are the IDE's I can think of off the top of my head. This section would include various tips like using the inbuilt debuggers and similar things as well, not just setup. Things to Add? Are there any major areas that you would like to see added to the FAQ? What sort of things are we missing. Steve is busy working on dumping in a lot more code examples based on various questions we've seen hit the list. What other areas should we include. We expect that the rework will probably take a week or two to do depending on whether we update everything at once or release piecemeal updates. No promises, but that's the general plan anyway. -- Justin Couch Senior Software Engineer VRML-Java Author ADI Ltd, Systems Group. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many frames or one frame for many lights?" -Suocomandante Marcos ------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java 3D Home Page: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/
