Hi Eric, On 3 June 2013 11:42, Eric Sokolowsky <esok....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been an active contributor to OSG in the past but have not kept up > with recent developments. I have an application that uses OSG 2.8.5 mostly > unmodified except for one patch that changes the way osgText breaks up > words. I am wondering how easy it is generally to port programs forward from > OSG 2.8.5 to the current release (appears to be 3.0.1, at least that is what > is available by default in Fedora 17).
Mostly it should be just a re-compile. The main changes were additions that won't require changes to most applications that use the OSG. > I am of course willing to submit the changes I made to the word splitting in > OSG, but how accepted will that be to the community? With the default word > splitting, I was seeing things like: > > Large numbers split in the middle: "1,000\n,000,000" (The \n is where the > line split occurred) > Punctuation shown at the beginning of the next line instead of at the end of > a line: "This is the end\n. This is another sentence." > Date/time split in strange places: "15:27\n:12" > > My new rules make the only splitting points at spaces and at hyphens > (leaving the hyphen at the end of the line). If others depend on the current > line-splitting method, I can create a patch that would allow the user to > choose which method to use. It's hard to know without seeing the submission, feel free to submit and I can then have a think. We also have a TextNode implementation in the works that allows custom control of layout among other elements so it might be a good place for the custom work. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
