[news.eclipse.gef3d] Signature of IFigure3D.render(..) and other similar

[Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

this posting is only interesting for you if you have used GEF3D before 
April 12th and do an update (to revision 69 or newer):

as already mailed to the GEF3D developer mailing list, I have changed 
the signature of IFigure3D.render(..).
(This was necessary due to a problem with Java singletons used by 
plugins declared as plugin-singletons.)

This change affects all render and postrender methods, that is

IFigure3D.render()
IFigure3D.postrender()
and
TransparentObject.renderTransparent()
TransparentObject.getTransparencyDepth()

All these methods now have a parameter RenderContext. Before the 
change, your code will probably have looked like this:

@Override
public void postrender() {
	RenderContext renderContext = RenderContext.getContext();
	...
}

Since RenderContext is no singleton anymore, the static method 
RenderContext.getContext() has been removed. Instead, the render 
context is passed as parameter, so you will have to change your code to:

@Override
public void postrender(RenderContext renderContext) {
	...
}

It's pretty simple, isn't it ;-) If you need the render context outside 
that method, you may call the newly introduced method
IFigure3D.getRenderContext(), but I do not recommend that, since we are 
maybe going to remove that method. The render context is usually only 
needed inside the render methods and then it is passed as parameter now.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience!

Cheers

Jens