Re: QUESTION about the background color of X3d!!

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 16:08:00 +0200


Iztok ROPOTAR wrote:
>
> Hi rooters,
>
> some time ago I asked the followig Question:
>
> > we are presently writing a 3D offline event display using root and
> > the x3d viewer. Our questions therefor are:
> >
> > 1.) How is it possible to change the default
> > X3D background colour ("black") into another one.
>
> The answer from Valery Fine was the following:
>
> With OpenGL view the background of GL window is the same as
> background of the "original TPad" object. So one can change it
> easily.
>
> *******
> Unfortunatly I got the impression its not as easy.
> As we are working on a Sun Unix system, we do not use OpenGL.
> So I tried to figure out if there is a way to address the
> background color of the X3D-window with some settings in the
> ".Xdefaults" file of my local account.
> Unfortunatly I didnt find any information in the documentation of root,
> how to address root (X3D) from the ".Xdefaults" file.
> Maybe one can give me some further information.
>

Iztok,
Currently, there is no way to set the X3D settings via Xdefaults.
I agree that this is bad and I will discuss your request
with the X3D experts.

Rene Brun