Viewer Software Overview

See Also

Viewer Source Files

Code Overview

Modules

newview

• The Second Life client. See Viewer Source Files

llwindow

• Contains code for hardware specific abstractions
  • llwindow*.cpp - window management
  • llkeyboard* - keyboard and mouse input
  • llgl*, lldxhardware - OpenGL extensions management and graphics card info queries

llmedia

• Contains code for turning quicktime and other media sources (e.g. Mozilla) into images

llrender

• Contains code to abstract low level rendering
  • llvertexprogram - vertex shaders
  • llvertexbuffer - vertex buffer objects
  • llimagegl - OpenGL texture management
  • llfont/llfontgl - fonts

llaudio

• Audio abstraction (FMOD, OpenAL, Ogg)

llscene

• Misc files for shared data structures between the viewer and the simulator

llprimitive

• Primitive to volume tessellation and management
• Primitive (object) property management

llui

• User interface library

llinventory

• Inventory data management

llcharacter

• Animation

llmessage

• Message handling library

llvfs

• Virtual File System (to be deprecated)
• Local File System (threaded file manager)

llxml

• XML parser / exporter

llimage

• Image library (formatted image, e.g jpeg2000 <-> raw image conversion)

llmath

• Math library

llcommon

• Data structure and common utility library

Dependencies

Modules depend only on modules below them (no cross dependencies!)

newview
llwindow	llmedia
llrender
llaudio	llscene	llprimitive	llui	llinventory	llcharacter
llmessage
llvfs	llxml	llimage
llmath
llcommon