[ REQ 6854]: Geomview - Praise

[jkrause at iis.ee.ethz.ch]

Dear Geomview Developpers,

I want to thank for this great tool!! In the last days I learned to appreciate 
its capabilities and its speed. It helped me visualize complicated three 
dimensional structures I created with my programme. Using a named  pipe I can 
directly feed all the information needed into geomview. It working with the 
binaries for SGI and Sun Ultras, both are of version 1.6.1.

At one point I run into a small problem: when my programme starts sending 
information into the pipe, I need to give geomview an X event (focus the 
window or moving mouse pointer is sufficient) in order to trigger geomview to 
read from the pipe. Finally my programme stop when geomview does not read from 
the pipe, but it continues after geomview starts reading again. Can I make 
geomview check the pipe regularly, even if the user is not continuously 
sending events to geomview.

The feature 'inertia motion' really shows the capabilities of geomview, but I 
would prefer it, if it was switched off by default. Is there a gcl command, 
that I have not found in the manual?


Thank you for your work.

Best regards

Jens


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Jens Krause
Integrated Systems Laboratory
ETH-Zentrum, ETZ
Gloriastr. 35
CH-8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
Tel. : +41-1-63 25 489
Fax. : +41-1-63 21 194
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