DataViewer planning and bug report
Brief explanation
This is a page with internal destination for the LCVM2 lab and its close
collaborators. Anyone outside these categories is not concerned.
The purpose of this page is to keep everyone informed with the progress,
plans and bugs in DataViewer otherwise than by emails that people may not
read and keep. Everyone that has a bug to report about DataViewer or a
suggestion to make about future development of the software is encouraged
to send an email to
dana.vrajitoru@epfl.ch
Your suggestion or bug report should rapidly appear on this page, in
one of the 3 sections below.
The features on this list that have already been implemented are displayed
in red.
Contents
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Plan for DataViewer 2.2
This section contains the plan for the next stable release of DataViewer
(2.2) scheduled for the end of January 2001.
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Plan for DataViewer 2.4
This section contains a longer term plan for the DataViewer. The features
will be added progressively until September 2002.
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Open questions and bugs
This section contains bugs that are hard to correct or suggestions
that may not be added to DataViewer unless we find an easier way to do
it than the one we can figure right now. Features in this list are not
guaranteed to be done.
Plan for DataViewer 2.2
Exporting DataViewer scenes to scene files, povray files and VRML.
Adding a scripted animation feature.
Plan for DataViewer 2.4
Correcting the background.
Making the DVtext class functional.
A complete SGML version of the reference manual.
Adding an include directive in the scene file format.
Adding a visibility property to each DVobject.
Implementing a scene file editor.
Implementing a C1 interpolation function for interpolation containers.
Defining named objects and colors in the scene files.
Open questions and bugs
Adding transparency.
Dana Vrajitoru dana.vrajitoru@epfl.ch
Last modified: November the 7th, 2000.