The Open Cascade documentation uses frames and some thing
called webhelp from blue sky software which is a java front
end that drives the whole thing. You can imagine how
netscape on linux works with this. :) My experience is that
netscape freezes 60% of the time when trying to access the
documentation. Then if it does work, it may get out of
whack, get lost, and you will have to restart netscape again
to get it to work. The really silly thing is that this is
just the index system. The actual documentation pages are
just static html.
So I spent about 2 hours with ls, grep,
sed, and vim and made a really ugly single static page to
get at all
the documentation.
I also added a very useful page/index for browsing all the
header files. Makes it pretty easy to check out the
interfaces. download
Started to check out the Open Cascade WOK. WOK stands for
Workshop Organization Kit and it is a development
environment. This looks
like a very powerful tool that might be applied to large
other projects. An alternative to automake/autoconf, a
special emacs mode, and CDL, a meta language for
designing c++ applications. Very interesting indeed. Check
out the users
guide (pdf file).