Re: KPovModeler Tutorial
Andreas Zehender <[email protected]>
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Hi! On Monday, 14. July 2003 10:03, Hugo Ferreira wrote: > Interesting. BTW it is "works". Way too old to be studdying 8-}. Can you write a few sentences about you? > > > How much time do you want to spend for KPovModeler? Are you interested > > > in implementing all missing objects? I'd like to finish the plugin > > > framework with a POV-Ray 3.5 plugin for KDE 3.2. > > > And we lack the time to do much development at the moment. Would be > > > great to have a new team member. > > > > Aye! That it would! > > Unfortunatelly I don't have much time. Basically I just wanted to support > the polygons. I can go on giving some of my time, but I cannot give u any > guarantees. 8-( Oh sure. We all don't have much time at the moment, too. I hoped you are a lazy student who has too much spare time ;-) > I will be looking at the tutorial and asking some questions, of course ;-). > Andreas, thanks for the info. Any way I could add comments to the code to > reflect this information? Sure, fell free to add parts of my tutorial to the class documentation. I will add a document with the complete tutorial to the repository, too. > I would like to ask a related question. I had a look at the parser and see > that it is a major part of the work. I have also realized that parsing and > supporting all the PovRay objects is a constant battle for any application > that interfaces with povray. So may question is, have any of you considred > using automatic parser generators to do this work? If not, why? Please > note: this is not a suggestion to change Kpovmodeler. I am merely > interested in the reasons for your decisions. I just couldn't figure it out how to build an object tree while parsing with bison. And I had the fear that bison is too inflexible. I don't think I can build a class hierarchy with different parsers with bison like KPovModeler has at the moment. Greetings, Andreas -- -------------------------------------------------- Andreas Zehender Master of Computer Science, Dipl. Ing. (BA) http://www.azweb.de [email protected] | [email protected] -------------------------------------------------- List archive and information: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kpovmodeler-devel