This document explains how to port your Open Inventor™ 2.0 application to Open Inventor 2.1 or later. Emphasis is on making the porting process go smoothly and on helping you make your application run as efficiently as possible, using the various performance enhancements provided by Open Inventor 2.1 and later. Open Inventor 2.1 or later are fully compatible so in this document, all the references to Open Inventor 2.1 are also valid for Open Inventor 2.4, 2.5, or later.
To work successfully with this manual, you should know how to write and debug Open Inventor applications. Most readers of this book probably port applications they wrote themselves. If you haven't worked with Open Inventor before, you are urged to read the materials listed here and to gain some experience programming with Open Inventor before you attempt to port an application.
The following books provide background and complementary information for this manual.
Wernecke, Josie, and the Open Inventor Architecture Group. The Inventor Mentor: Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor, Release 2, Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.
Open Inventor Architecture Group. Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.
Wernecke, Josie, and the Open Inventor Architecture Group. The Inventor Toolmaker. Extending Open Inventor, Release 2. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.