[IGSTK-Developers] tracker heirarchy

[Frank Lindseth]

We support the idea (as suggested a couple of times already...), and  
agrees that this might not be the top priority right now.

- Frank

On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Andinet Enquobahrie wrote:

> Hi Ziv,
>
> This is a good idea.  It will definitely make the hierarchy
> cleaner/more elegant. However, this should not be a priority at
> this point.  We should focus instead on solidifying and testing  
> thoroughly
> the functions of the classes instead of structural organization.
>
> But, feel free to add it to our wish list for the future.
> -Andinet
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After reviewing the Tracker/auroraTracker/polarisTracker classes I  
>> believe the current hierarchy should be changed. Currently  
>> auroraTracker and polarisTracker inherit from Tracker, all are  
>> complete classes with large chunks of exactly the same code in the  
>> Aurora and Polaris classes.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest that Tracker become a virtual base class. Then  
>> we have NDIAuroraPolarisBase, a virtual base class for the two  
>> trackers containing all the common functions. Only then do we have  
>> the AuroraTracker and PolarisTracker which can be instantiated.
>>
>>                 comments anyone?
>>                        Ziv
>>
>
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