Introduction to Components

The Inventor Component Library consists of three major parts:

• Xt utility functions for initialization and window management
• An Xt render area for static display of a scene graph
• A set of Xt components, which include their own render area and a user interface for changing the displayed scene The following sections describe each part in more detail. This chapter assumes you have already read Handling Events and Selection, which describes the relationship between the Xt library and the Open Inventor toolkit, which is window-system–independent.