Re: [geclipse-dev] World Wind problem

[Harald Kornmayer <harald.kornmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I"m with Ariel here! We should really be careful what we deliver. It
should work. I have to test today again, but I did not succeed with any
machine which is currently available for me. And even worser. It run
once on my computer at home, but when I tried on Monday or Tuesday, I
had the some black screen there. That is very strange, as it run there
once..... 

And then, Thomas, every plugin we deliver is somehow critical, as this
goes outside and the plugins release have to be of some quality, haven't
they?? 

Harald 


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 23:33 +0200, Thomas Köckerbauer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > > My guess is that this is a graphics card driver problem. Which graphic
> > > chipset do you have and which driver do you use?
> >
> > uhm... i really don't like this kind of answers... not that your answer is
> > wrong, but perhaps i should say i don't like the bitter truth ;-P
> >
> > We are writing a tool which is supposed to be platform independent, being
> > based on java and eclipse, and we end up with "chipset" and "driver"
> > problems!   Arghhh! bad bad bad...
> > Isn't there any way to avoid using   opengl  and native libraries, even if
> > it would be not so performant?
> 
> Well, not really, even if we would use Java3D (and I guess porting it to that 
> would be a lot of work) it would not help since this is also basing on 
> OpenGL. If we would use MESA software rendering we would have lots of work 
> with packaging (the JOGL libraries are the precompiled ones from SUN and it 
> looks like as if JOGL would become a part of the normal Java distribution in 
> some time) and I guess that would produce more problems then it solves.
> I think the best solution is to say: Install a working graphics card driver 
> (since no other 3D application will work reasonable too anyway). It's not 
> difficult for nVidia cards, for other cards I don't know. And if there is no 
> useable driver its always possible to install MESA instead. But I think that 
> this is no problem we have to solve, especially since the WorldWind plugin is 
> no critical plugin for g-Eclipse anyway.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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