Hi Toni,

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:24 +0200, Antonio Bleile wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to implement the following:
> Pick an object and manipulate its matrix
> (at least the rotational part) via trackball.
> I know there's a Navigator class which can be
> used to rotate the camera, but I want to modify
> an arbitrary matrix with the trackball. My
> intuition says, that this is a very easy task
> in OpenSG... I see that I can set-up a matrix
> with a quaternion... so all I actually need to do
> is to translate the mouse movement to a 
> quaternion. Is there anything ready for use
> in OpenSG?

you want manipulators, like in Inventor. There is a proof-of-concept
version in Source/Experimental/Manipulators, but it's neither very nice
nor complete. manipulators so far have been a little outside the sciope
of what we had time to do, so they're not that great.

Hope it helps

        Dirk





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