Re: SPEC questions

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:33:21 -0700

> I think something Netscape-esque might be appropriate her>. In Netscape
> there i a menu pulled up by the right button on links (under X and
> Windoze -- Mac it i a click and hold delay). If you menu-click (we'll
call
> it that for cross-platform generalization) on an object it could pull up
a
> floating menu of switches (or states, we could call it). I think the
camera
> views belong in the menubar but state for specific objects should be
> attached

The webspace use of SoSwitch for Viewpoints was a convenient way of
implementing what turns out to b> an extremely useful feature in a VRML
compliant way. In my opinion it would be useful to spec that feature.
But we must be careful before going any further than that. If we spec
some general functionality for Switch then we will have to support it
forever. It is better to wait until we have a behavioral model defined.

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