Thanks...this did the trick. I guess I just didn't really understand what a SceneGraphPath was until now. I didn't know it held references to all of the object in the path.
thanks for the info, kddubb On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 13:29, Justin Couch wrote: > Kevin Werner wrote: > > > What can I do to find the Group that a Shape3D is in without calling > > getParent()? Or what am I doing wrong so that getParent() works? > > If you are using picking, then you will get back a SceneGraphPath > instance. If you have enabled pick reporting on the parent group(s), > then these will appear in the path (which is the listing of the nodes > from the root of the scene graph to the object that was picked). To > find the parent, just walk backwards from the end of the path until you > find the Group of interest. > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. > Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it > a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to > distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many > frames or one frame for many lights?" -Subcomandante Marcos > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
