Post yours here so I/we know what to fix for 0.8.1
This thread could seems a bit curious to users so I’ll describe what I want to see here :
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Some things you don’t like in the design, that you could “live with” but not necessarily hard to fix it, like : why Loaders don’t use the singleton pattern ? Or why do I have to have 5 lines of code to change the color of an object (or even more lines of code if you want scenegraph traversal !)
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Some small bugs you noticed or integration problems
ok. Then I will collect some things mentioned in previous threads:
- TransformGroup/Transform3D: Make Transform3D being an interface with only the getMatrix4f() method and add some implementations for translation / rotation / scale
- BranchGroup: extend the BranchGroup class to RootBranchgroup with a contructor taking a projection policy and change the View class to take only RootBranchGroup instances and render depending on the given projection policy. And guerantee that its children are rendered in the added order (OrderedGroup could then be eliminated)
- Scene/SceneBase: Change the Scene interface and SceneBase implementation to not return arrays in all the getters, but Vectors/HashMaps/etc. and let the SceneBase extend TransformGroup. Add a constructor with a desired size to SceneBase doing what GenericLoader does.
- Generics: Review all the code to eliminate all the unused private variables and make all classes use generics to avoid unneeded castings.
- org.xith3d.geometry: Let all geometry helpers extend a GeometryBase class or implement a common interface.
- org.xith3d.geometry: Add contructors to all geometry classes to take an instance of com.xith3d.Texture like I did for Quad
- org.xith3d.geometry: Maybe we should consider renaming the package to org.xith3d.shapes, because that’s what it really is.
- Package reorganization: rename com.xith3d to org.xith3d in the core, spread some classes into subpackages of their current packages. We should offer a small java proggy to update code to the new hierarchy.
That’s all for the moment.
I found this on eclipse.org: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_2.html#JDT
Eclipse 3.2 is announced to be release in late june (during the next days :)).
This should make it possible for us to change a lot of things without worrying about people using the new version to be f**ked up ;D
So we are free to reform/improve the package hierarchy of xith.
Yeah and it seems like much people’s using Eclipse with Xith3D.
Is there a tag in CVS for 0.8 release? If not can you guys make it part of your release procedure?
Thanks!
Well I must admit my CVS knowledge isn’t as big as I would…
If you indicate me the procedure to follow I’ll happily do that. (If I have the needed access rights, of course).