[JAVA3D] How do I move an object without interpolators?

[Michael P. McCutcheon]

I am used to programming in VRML.  With it, you would have a
TimeSensor...you would route the timesensor to a particular object, on which
you would have a method that was called after each frame.  In this method
you would update the position of your objects, then when the method
completed, VRML did it's rendering, and the time sensor would then do it all
over again.

What I'm wondering, if I want to move a simple object around from 0 to -500,
say in 1 increments, (without using an interpolator, I want to explictly set
it my self), how would I do this?  I ran some code like this but it simply
does not seem to work:

I have this in an event handler of a AWT button:

  for(int counter=0; counter<100; counter++) {
   z=z-0.2f;
   translation.set(0,0,z);
   transform3D.setTranslation(translation);
   transformGroup.setTransform(transform3D);
  }

Any tips on what classes I should be looking at to do such a thing the right
way?

Thanks for any info...

Mike

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