NAME

       SoSField — abstract base class for all single-value fields

INHERITS FROM

       SoField > SoSField

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Inventor/fields/SoField.h>

          Methods from class SoSField:

     static SoType       getClassTypeId()

          Methods from class SoField:

     void                setIgnored(SbBool ignore)
     SbBool              isIgnored() const
     SbBool              isDefault() const
     virtual SoType      getTypeId() const
     virtual SbBool      isOfType(SoType type) const
     SbBool              set(const char *valueString)
     void                get(SbString &valueString)
     int                 operator ==(const SoField &f) const
     int                 operator !=(const SoField &f) const
     void                touch()
     SbBool              connectFrom(SoField *fromField)
     SbBool              connectFrom(SoEngineOutput *fromEngine)
     void                disconnect()
     SbBool              isConnected() const
     SbBool              isConnectedFromField() const
     SbBool              getConnectedField(SoField *&writingField) const
     SbBool              isConnectedFromEngine() const
     SbBool              getConnectedEngine(SoEngineOutput *&engineOutput) const
     void                enableConnection(SbBool flag)
     SbBool              isConnectionEnabled() const
     int                 getForwardConnections(SoFieldList &list) const
     SoFieldContainer *  getContainer() const

DESCRIPTION

       Each  class  derived  from SoSField begins with an SoSF prefix and contains one value of a
       particular type. Each has setValue() and getValue() methods that are  used  to  change  or
       access  this  value.  In addition, some field classes have extra convenience routines that
       allow values to be set or retrieved in other related formats (see below).

       In addition to setValue(), all single-value fields overload the "=" assignment operator to
       set  the  field value from the correct datatype or from another field instance of the same
       type.

       The value of a single-value field is written to file in a format dependent  on  the  field
       type; see the subclass man pages for details.

       A  field that is ignored has a tilde (~) either in place of the value (if the actual value
       is the default) or after it (otherwise).

METHODS

     static SoType       getClassTypeId()
          Return the type identifier for this field class.

SEE ALSO

       SoField, SoMField

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