e: Recent Morphic/Alice changes?

Bill Schwab schwabw at sprynet.com
Fri Nov 29 19:22:13 UTC 2002


Andreas,

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> is there a way to refactor Alice so the classes would 
> not be necessary, and therefore would not need to be 
recompiled?  

There certainly is, but I have never looked at it. Mostly because 
Wonderlands are the kind of environments where you don't create 
hundreds of actors dynamically. I don't know what exactly you 
are doing but I would recommend looking at what class reshapes 
take place and why. Most likely, a lot can be done just by 
reordering things a little.
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Making a long story short, I'm looking for some kind of retained 
mode graphics engine: basically anything that lets me think in 
terms of objects instead of triangles.  Maybe the answer is in the 
Teapot category.

I can't actually run Croquet at home, but I can browse the code, 
and it looks like there are pieces that I could glue together to do 
the kinds of things that I have in mind.  There's even some 
(gasp<g>) documentation.

Will classes like TFrame etc. be available independent of Croquet?

Bill

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