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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Adam,

 At the moment it's not really suitable for testers, only devs. One of the
problems I have is that I need some help from OSX and MSWin devs on
the plugin discovery and loading.  It will be a few months yet before the
refactor is at a stage where normal users can test anything.

- Cirilo


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Cirilo,
>
> After I look at the new OS X bugs, I will look into putting this on the OS
> X build box so you'll be able to see if it builds on OS X, and any testers
> could just download it instead of build it.
> On Sep 6, 2015 12:44 AM, "Cirilo Bernardo" <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>  The 3D refactoring branch now has a very minimal test program
>> with a simple window. At the moment the test program instantiates
>> the 3D Model Manager which in turn loads a plugin. When the
>> menu item File->Select is activated a message pops up which
>> shows the user the loaded plugins and the file extensions which
>> they support. At the moment the plugin is only a dummy for test
>> purposes; it does not actually support any of the model files which
>> it claims to support.
>>
>>  Anyone interested in playing with the new code at this early stage
>> can make a branch from:
>>
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/3drefactor
>>
>> The README file in the 3dv directory has some instructions
>> to build and run the test program.
>>
>> At the moment the software has only been tested on Linux;
>> I'd appreciate it if OSX and MSWin developers could have a
>> look and add some code to the plugin discovery and loading
>> codes (3d_model_manager.cpp - functions listPlugins and
>> loadPlugins, and S3D_PLUGIN_ITEM::Open()).
>> If I didn't implement a real plugin then the work would be trivial,
>> but I would like to have a genuine plugin system because it
>> makes life much easier in the long run.
>>
>> Basically, the 3D model manager will be responsible for
>> selecting 3D model files associated with each footprint
>> and also for caching and creating data sets ready for
>> rendering to a wxDC. The data model loading and
>> processing will be the responsibility of the individual
>> plugins.
>>
>> - Cirilo
>>
>>
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