Hi Chris, Paul, Ulrich, I won't dive in to much right now as I have enough other topics swishing around in my skull to keep me occupied, but a few general notes.
Description kinda bloat osg::Node already, I would like to reduce this bloat and stream line the base classes even more ;-) I would also like generalize UserData but... not use any more than the present pointer that we already have in place, don't forget we need to aim for less bloat not more... All is not lost though... you just have to be a bit more creative :-) My thought was that you could possibly create a CompositeUserData or similar class that you attach as the via the present _userData pointer when you need the extra services such as description, user data accessed via int/string descriptors etc. Such as scheme could be hidden by accessors methods in the base class that only even attach the full blow CompositeUserData when actual data is attached to the object. Since most object in the scene never have any UserData or descriptions it does feel like an efficient way to reduce bloat whilst offer more flexible extensions. Perhaps other data could also be move out the base classes this way too... Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
