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Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Free and open source software (FOSS) is only beginning to find a foothold in computer science departments in North America. FOSS tools may be used in teaching or be the subject of research or special committees, but few departments include courses that introduce students to the FOSS community. As a result, when North Carolina State University created a FOSS graduate course in the 2008 spring semester, it turned to Red Hat to find an instructor with a suitable background of FOSS involvement and university teaching experience. Community manager Greg DeKoenigsberg recommended performance tools engineer Will Cohen, who now looks back at the experience with an eye to how what he and his students learned might help other instructors.


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SoLocation2Event(3)						       Coin						       SoLocation2Event(3)

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SoLocation2Event - The SoLocation2Event class contains information about 2D movement events. Location2 events are generated by devices capable of 2D, e.g. pointer devices -- typically computer mice. Instances of this class contains information about the position of the pointer on the render area. SYNOPSIS
#include <Inventor/events/SoLocation2Event.h> Inherits SoEvent. Public Member Functions virtual SoType getTypeId (void) const SoLocation2Event (void) virtual ~SoLocation2Event () Static Public Member Functions static SoType getClassTypeId (void) static void initClass (void) Detailed Description The SoLocation2Event class contains information about 2D movement events. Location2 events are generated by devices capable of 2D, e.g. pointer devices -- typically computer mice. Instances of this class contains information about the position of the pointer on the render area. SoLocation2Event does not contain any new information versus its superclass, its sole purpose is to make it possible to specify the type of the event for event object receivers in the scene graph. See also: SoEvent, SoMotion3Event SoEventCallback, SoHandleEventAction Constructor &; Destructor Documentation SoLocation2Event::SoLocation2Event (void) Constructor. SoLocation2Event::~SoLocation2Event () [virtual] Destructor. Member Function Documentation SoType SoLocation2Event::getClassTypeId (void) [static] This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class. Reimplemented from SoEvent. SoType SoLocation2Event::getTypeId (void) const [virtual] Returns the actual type id of an instantiated object. Reimplemented from SoEvent. void SoLocation2Event::initClass (void) [static] Initialize the type information data. Reimplemented from SoEvent. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for Coin from the source code. Version 3.1.3 Wed May 23 2012 SoLocation2Event(3)