Christopher,
I can only guess, since it's down to the Sun folks for a good explanation, but
it seems to me that the BranchGroup class is fundamental in this respect. E.G. it
is the unit that can be compiled via compile().
I can't begin to imagine what would happen if you could detach a Node from
a compiled BranchGroup.
Rob
Christopher Collins wrote:
> Rob and everyone else,
>
> On a related note then... why is there only BranchGroup.detach() and not a
> general Node.detach()? It makes scenes much larger when you have many
> shapes, each with it's own BranchGroup to allow the shapes to be detachable!
> It would be more convenient to be able to have TransformGroup.detach(),
> Shape3D.detach(), etc.
>
> Chris
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Nugent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] detach() suggestion
>
> J. Lee,
>
> I made this mistake (and asked this question a few months back).
>
> There is a detach() method in BranchGroup that works fine.
>
> Rob
>
> J. Lee Dixon wrote:
>
> > Why is there not a Node.detach() function? In order to detach a Node
> > child from its parent, currently you have to go to the parent, then
> > search the list of its children to find the index of the one you want to
> > detach, then call Group.removeChild(index). (Am I missing some better
> > way of doing this?)
> >
> > Would anyone else like to see this function? How about it, Sun?
> >
> > J. Lee Dixon
> > Software Engineer
> > SAIC - Celebration, FL
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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