I'm looking for a way to annotate nodes with numeric information at runtime. The data need not be stored during scenegraph writes, but I don't mind if it is. I've used the Description before for similar purposes, but you can't precisely and reversibly store a floating-point value in a string.
I'm considered extending the Description API to support storing, and search/retrieving typed key=value pairs (MYVALUE_FP, 3.14159265) in the description container. Non-text-compatible types like floats/doubles would be stored by converting the FP value to the actual binary value, then encoding that binary value as text, either as decimal, hex, or base64. Is there already a good way to do this, or is this a technique that others would find useful in core OSG? -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
