Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] Strings and parameter lists

[Gerard Iglesias]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> Is your plan to design/implement a "RIB loader" which creates a 3DKit 
> scene graph from a RIB file or are you planning to come up with a 
> "stream processor" which feeds the RIB to the renderer of choice 
> directly?

My plan is to have RIB as a file format for 3DKit, hence it does mean 
RIB --> 3D scene editable....

What do you think.

In the meantime, maybe the design of the parser would permit to build 
what we want from the RIB file.

In fact I am using this target to combine 3Dkit test plus something 
very very usefull.

If we come with an open source RIB file format parser enough generic ...

> Well, to me it is not a question of speed but more of design 
> philosophy. It is a different style to use dictionaries for argument 
> passing than C argument lists. But I agree that we should use 
> dictionaries, and if we find out that the programming model becomes 
> too cumbersome (or too slow) to use then we can still change it in the 
> implementation phase.

Perfect :)


Gerard