Another Cobalt/Linux Experience

Hi,
my name is Thomas Braun and I'm following the development of Croquet since
"Jasmine" :)

I run Cobalt under Ubuntu-Linux 7.10 with a NVidia FX-5200 and the drivers from
NVidias web page. All works fine so far, allthough the "Collaborative" was
further advanced and offered more features. One thing I missed most was the
VRML importer, because I have  some beloved selfmade VRML models from old days.
For model creation I use ArtOfIllusion.org but I couldn't manage to get its
.OBJ exports to be loaded into Cobalt, so I always export to VRML'97.

I have successfully revived to VRML importer in Cobalt and extended the "Thing"
loader to show .WRL files and import them into Cobalt.

BTW: Why can't I move an imported VRML object around like the results from the
TPainter?

cheers...
Th.Braun

Hi Thomas!

Would you like to contribute your revived VRML importer to the Cobalt  
codebase?

If you could post a monticello changeset into the contributions area  
here:
http://croquet-src-01.oit.duke.edu:8886/

and open an issue in the mantis bugtracker here:

http://croquet-src-01.oit.duke.edu/mantis/index.php

I'll be happy to fold your work into the next build. I don't want top  
be a pain about this, but unless people will open issues in mantis  
and post code and contributions either there or on monticello it is  
going to be very difficult to keep track of where all the pieces are.

Cheers!

- mpm


P.S.

your problem with not being able to move the VRML imported objects  
around is probably because they are not children of the TSpinner  
class. Your importer is probably returning an TFrame object - make  
that a child frame of a TSpinner object and you ought to be able to  
manipulate it.



On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:43 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

Hello Marc!

I've put the change set VRML-thbr.5.cs into Mantis.

I couldn't manage to do the same with Monticello. I haven't used it for more
than updating and installing ever since.

cheers...
Th.Braun

Thank you Thomas!

Hello everybody,
I have received some responses to my posting at my local mail account, on my
machine at home. I cannot respond this way because I have a dynamic IP and thus
my responses don't get accepted by many of your mail providers. Call me a
rebell, but I don't like the idea of having my mails lying around on someone
elses server :)

@Carlos Crosetti:
The last time I ran Windows and Linux together on one machine was about 10
years ago, sorry. Actually it is possible, you should have a look at the Ubuntu
Wiki or forum.

@All others:
You can find the change set VRML-thbr.5.cs in Mantis. I haven't managed to do
the same using monticello yet. I only used it for updating and installing.

Is there a brief introduction to using monticello for contribution?

As I found out now, I created a conflict with the existing
CroquetMenuProject->actionImport. I think I should go with a tip from Mark and
modify the VRML importer to return a TDragger, ready to be handled by the rest
of the code in CroquetMenuProject->actionImport.

I'm also experimenting with the TEditBox but had limited success resulting in
TFarRefs without a name/OID.

Cheers...
Th. Braun