Re: Announcement Update SmartSoft

On Mon, 19 May 2003 [email protected] wrote:

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> - Can we implement a (generic) method for user interaction with the
> visualization server? For example, we might want to send commands to
> a robot when the user is dragging a graphical objects which
> corresponds to that robot. I.e. we would need a (generic) feedback
> channel.

The channel is one thing, the protocol that pencodes the _meaning_ of
the graphical actions is a second thing. I do not have very clear
ideas about what exactly we really need, so probably it's best to just
try out some ideas, and discuss concrete examples...

> - Which parts of these visualization facilities can be
> reused/extended to 3d? Probably not the Painter abstractions, but
> the concept of a visualization server which interacts with the user
> (presents the model, accepts/dispatches interaction events) might be
> worth to think about.

Agreed. There is a need for such a "server", but again its full
specification is still unclear to me. Proably, there are many servers,
because thre are also many different needs and application
purposes...

Herman Bruyninckx
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