Bump. This has had less reception then I would of liked.
It lacks some features, I guess. I'm working on an OBJ importer right now.
The 3DS model importer I found is a massive amount of lines, so I'd prefer to cut out the good bits and rewrite it myself. Only problem is I have no concept of binary files at all.. so it might come later.
I added zooming, that was easy. Polygon selecting is a bitch. It comes with OpenGL by default, but the documenation for it is horrible. I might have to actually do some high-level maths and make my own thing :(