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Volker Enderlein edited this page Dec 25, 2019 · 1 revision

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Okay, fair enough. But why is it called Inventor.framework, not Coin.framework?

The rules for using frameworks include that the include paths must be <Frameworkname/myheader.h>. Since all Open Inventor includes are of the form #include <Inventor/xxx.h>, the framework has to be called Inventor.framework as well. (Otherwise, you would have to rewrite all your existing Open Inventor code to use <Coin/xxx.h> instead.

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