Chris,
Yes. That should work in a live sceen. I plan to use changes to a JTree to
trigger changes in the sceen. Boxes may only be added or removed from the
top of the stack. I will set the capabilities and add a BranchGroup as well
as a TransformGroup.
Thanks for the idea.
Pierre
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> From: Christopher
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:26 AM
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>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> This is simplistic, but couldn't you have each individual box under it's
> own
> BranchGroup, and oriented with it's own TransformGroup? In this way, each
> box would be independently detachable. Just use picking to find the
> BranchGroup of the picked box, then detach it.
>
> Since the orientations are relative to the one below, removal of the top
> one
> should not affect the others, right?
>
> Good luck,
>
> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pondrom, Pierre L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] detach() suggestion
>
>
> I would like to give my users the capability to remove objects from a
> stack. Let say I have 4 boxes sitting on top of each other. The boxes
> are oriented relative to the one below it. Let me ask this question. In
> order to let the user to remove the top box, would I have to detach the
> entire group from the scene and then rebuild all the boxes except for the
> top one?
>
> > ----------
> > From: Christopher
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> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:16 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] detach() suggestion
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > Christopher Collins http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~a62cmc
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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
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