Viewer Software Overview

See Also

• Viewer Source Files
• Viewer Architecture
• Viewer Roadmap

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 (should) depend only on modules below them (no cross dependencies!)
• Steve Linden- Note: This was last verified in 1.6 so cross dependencies may have snuck in since

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