Re: [Closed REQ 5115]: BETA TESTING GEOMVIEW v1.5

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> Message-Id: <199410251550.AA14941 at cameron.geom.umn.edu>
> From: Thomas Dorris <twdorr01 at starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
> Subject: BETA TESTING GEOMVIEW v1.5
> To: software@geom
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 11:50:26 EDT
> 
> 
> BETA TESTING GEOMVIEW v1.5
> 
> I have used geomview v1.5 only a couple times, but I've noticed a couple
> things I wanted to check on to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong.
> It seems that the light intensity scrollbar doesn't register a change to
> its value when you actually click somewhere in the scrollbar (ie, it seems
> to change intensity only when you actually drag the scroll button).

Okay, that bug has been fixed... their is a new binary with the fix if you
want to retrieve it. Also, the source code on ftp has been updated. Thanks
for the tip!

> The other thing I noticed has to do with the loading of .geom files.  Should
> the point indices that are used in the definition of polygons be numbered
> such that the first point in the file is number 0 or number 1?  I've seen
> geom files that address those points as starting at 1, but geomview addresses
> them as starting at 0.  I'm assuming geomview is correct here (of course), but
> I just wanted to check because all of the .geom files that I've created myself
> start at 1.

Yes, Geomview numbers vertices starting at 0 at least in the OFF format.

> Well, that's it for now.  Again, I havent' worked with it for very long, but
> I'm VERY impressed already!  I'll let you know if I notice anything else.
>

We're glad you enjoy it!
 
> 

Best Regards,

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu