Hi Jeremy, I can certainly understand the desire to keep the code simple as possible - as there are always factors driving increased complexity as you introduce new functionality, so complexity that delivers little functionality is something that may well be bes to cull.
As for which coordinate frame to adopt, personally I'd go for OpenGL coordinate frame, as there shouldn't need to be any conversions of coordinate frame within the scene graph - it's all self consistent. OpenGL convention doe make it a little more of a learning curve for windowing centric developers, but shorten the learning curve for 3d centric developers so this aspect is a bit of six of one half a dozen of the other. Robert. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Jeremy Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all! > > So, a quick question (particularly to Robert)... > > How would you feel if I removed the ability for the user to choose their > origin with osgWidget via the enum passed to the WindowManager during > creation? It's just becoming a code maintenance nightmare, and I'm > having to do a ton of "deferred" positioning since the WindowManager is > what defines this and I have to wait until a UI Object has > it's ::managed() method called before I can do anything. I don't imagine > there are really that many people using it right now other than > experimentation, so it shouldn't be a big deal. > > If so, would you want to keep the default OpenGL origin (which can be > somewhat confusing to 3rd party UI mod-makers expecting it to be more > consistent with traditional windowing coordinate systems)? Or should it > be in the upper-left? Either way is fine, but trying to support both via > a simple enum (and then having to write all this code to do it properly > and THEN expecting people remember this when they derive custom Widgets) > seems to be getting out of hand... > > _______________________________________________ > 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
