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["Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le lundi 22 octobre 2012 11:04:35 Alvin Smith a écrit :
> Monsieur Rineau,
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.  May I point out,
> however, that your response is not very helpful?  I have seen many posts on
> this list that when someone has a difficult question, the automatic
> response is, "Read the full manual," or, "This is beyond the scope of
> CGAL."
> 
> No one could agree that having everyone becoming an expert in QT drawing
> routines and writing from scratch methods for drawing CGAL objects is a
> good use of time.  "Well tough bananas!" someone might respond, "Why should
> we support idiots who can't bother to fully understand QT?"
> 
> There is some truth in this, but there is also a demo (Polyhedron) packaged
> with CGAL that actually does all of this!  My point was that this demo is
> fairly complicated, and not very useful as a tutorial.  As you see, my
> question was actually to ask if there was a simpler demo, or some other
> method to to visualize.  A better answer than the one you provided would
> have been, "What you're looking for does not exist," or, "Go use meshlab,"
> or even better, "Here's a demo that some guy put together awhile ago show
> someone exactly how to do this."

The simple truth is that CGAL has no easy tutorial about making a Qt demo 
using CGAL. There are simpler demos than demo/Polyhedron, however:
  - in 2D, for example in demo/Polygon
  - in 3D, for example in demo/AABB_tree

I hope that it can help you.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/