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Element Classes -
Classes
class SoGLClipPlaneElement
The SoGLClipPlaneElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLColorIndexElement
The SoGLColorIndexElement class sets the current OpenGL color.
This element is only used when the OpenGL canvas is in colorindex mode, ie where colors for individual
pixels are fetched from a color lookup table ('CLUT'). The usual thing to do is to set up a canvas in
RGBA truecolor mode. "
class SoGLCoordinateElement
The SoGLCoordinateElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLDepthBufferElement
The SoGLDepthBufferElement controls the OpenGL depth buffer.
class SoGLDisplayList
The SoGLDisplayList class stores and manages OpenGL display lists.
The TEXTURE_OBJECT type is not directly supported in Coin. We handle textures differently in a more
flexible class called SoGLImage, which also stores some information about the texture used when
rendering. Old code which use this element should not stop working though. The texture object extension
will just not be used, and the texture will be stored in a display list instead. "
class SoGLDrawStyleElement
The SoGLDrawStyleElement updates the current draw style in OpenGL.
class SoGLEnvironmentElement
The SoGLEnvironmentElement class is for setting GL fog etc.
class SoGLLazyElement
The SoGLLazyElement class is meant to optimize GL rendering.
This is just a wrap-around implementation for compatibility. It should (hopefully) work in the same way
as the Inventor class though. "
class SoGLLightIdElement
The SoGLLightIdElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLLinePatternElement
The SoGLLinePatternElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoGLLineWidthElement
The SoGLLineWidthElement class changes the linewidth setting of the OpenGL render state.
Requests from the scenegraph to change the linewidth when rendering OpenGL line primitives will be made
through this element, which forwards it to the appropriate native OpenGL call. "
class SoGLModelMatrixElement
The SoGLModelMatrixElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLMultiTextureCoordinateElement
The SoGLMultiTextureCoordinateElement class stores the current gltexture coordinates for several units.
class SoGLMultiTextureImageElement
The SoGLMultiTextureImageElement is used to control the current GL texture for texture units.
class SoGLMultiTextureMatrixElement
The SoGLMultiTextureMatrixElement class is used to update the OpenGL texture matrix.
Since (for some weird reason) most OpenGL implementations have a very small texture matrix stack, and
since the matrix stack also is broken on many OpenGL implementations, the texture matrix is always loaded
into OpenGL. We do not push() and pop() matrices. "
class SoGLNormalElement
The SoGLNormalElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLPointSizeElement
The SoGLPointSizeElement class changes the pointsize setting of the OpenGL render state.
Requests from the scenegraph to change the pointsize when rendering point primitives will be made through
this element, which forwards it to the appropriate native OpenGL call. "
class SoGLPolygonOffsetElement
The SoGLPolygonOffsetElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLProjectionMatrixElement
The SoGLProjectionMatrixElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoGLRenderPassElement
The SoGLRenderPassElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoGLShapeHintsElement
The SoGLShapeHintsElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoGLUpdateAreaElement
The SoGLUpdateAreaElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLVBOElement
The SoGLVBOElement class is used to store VBO state.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLViewingMatrixElement
The SoGLViewingMatrixElement class is used to store the current viewing matrix.
The viewing matrix contains the inverse camera coordinate system matrix. The camera coordinate system is
built from the field values in the current SoCamera (currently either SoPerspectiveCamera or
SoOrthographicCamera) and any transformations prior to the camera in the scene graph. "
class SoGLViewportRegionElement
The SoGLViewportRegionElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoAccumulatedElement
The SoAccumulatedElement class is an abstract class for storing accumulated state.
This is the superclass of elements where new element data accumulates with older data. "
class SoAmbientColorElement
The SoAmbientColorElement class is yet to be documented.
class SoAnnoText3CharOrientElement
The SoAnnoText3CharOrientElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoAnnoText3FontSizeHintElement
The SoAnnoText3FontSizeHintElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoAnnoText3RenderPrintElement
The SoAnnoText3RenderPrintElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoBBoxModelMatrixElement
The SoBBoxModelMatrixElement class keeps track of the current model matrix during a scene graph
traversal. It is used by amongst others the SoGetBoundingBoxAction class.
class SoBumpMapCoordinateElement
The SoBumpMapCoordinateElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoBumpMapMatrixElement
The SoBumpMapMatrixElement class is used to manage the bump map matrix stack.
The bump map matrix is used to transform bump map coordinates before being used to map bump maps onto
polygons. "
class SoCacheElement
The SoCacheElement class stores and manages the open caches.
class SoClipPlaneElement
The SoClipPlaneElement class is used to manage the clip plane stack.
class SoComplexityElement
The SoComplexityElement class contains the current shape complexity for a graph traverser.
class SoComplexityTypeElement
The SoComplexityTypeElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoCoordinateElement
The SoCoordinateElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoCreaseAngleElement
The SoCreaseAngleElement class stores the crease angle during a scene graph traversal.
class SoCullElement
The SoCullElement class is used internally for render and pick culling.
The element holds all planes the geometry should be inside, and keeps a bitflag to signal which planes
need to be tested. "
class SoDecimationPercentageElement
The SoDecimationPercentageElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoDecimationTypeElement
The SoDecimationTypeElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoDepthBufferElement
The SoDepthBufferElement controls the depth buffer settings.
class SoDiffuseColorElement
The SoDiffuseColorElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoDrawStyleElement
The SoDrawStyleElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoElement
SoElement is the abstract base class for all elements.
class SoEmissiveColorElement
The SoEmissiveColorElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoEnvironmentElement
The SoEnvironmentElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoFloatElement
SoFloatElement is an abstract base class for elements that consists of a single float value.
This is the superclass of elements where the new element data replaces the old data, and where the data
the element stores is a simple single precision floating point value. "
class SoFocalDistanceElement
The SoFocalDistanceElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoFontNameElement
The SoFontNameElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoFontSizeElement
The SoFontSizeElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoInt32Element
The SoInt32Element class is the base class for elements that simply store a 32-bit integer.
This is the superclass of elements where the new element data replaces the old data, and where the data
the element stores is a simple 32-bit integer value. "
class SoLazyElement
The SoLazyElement class is used to handle material and shape properties.
So[GL]LazyElement is, as the name implies, an element that is lazy about sending things to OpenGL. The
changes are not sent to OpenGL until SoGLLazyElement::send() is called. This means that you can change
the state of certain attributes several times, but the state will only be sent to OpenGL once. "
class SoLightAttenuationElement
The SoLightAttenuationElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoLightElement
The SoLightElement class manages the currently active light sources.
class SoLightModelElement
The SoLightModelElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoLinePatternElement
The SoLinePatternElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoLineWidthElement
The SoLineWidthElement class changes the linewidth setting of the render state.
Requests from the scenegraph to change the linewidth when rendering line primitives will be made through
this element, which forwards it to the appropriate native call in the underlying rendering library. "
class SoListenerDopplerElement
The SoListenerDopplerElement holds the doppler velocity and factor of the current listener.
The dopplerVelocity and dopplerFactor is set by SoListener nodes during audio rendering. The
SoListenerDopplerElement is used when the SoVRMLSound nodes render themselves. "
class SoListenerGainElement
The SoListenerGainElement class stores the SoListener gain during a scene graph traversal.
This gain is set by SoListener nodes during audio rendering. The SoListenerGainElement is used when the
SoVRMLSound nodes render themselves. "
class SoListenerOrientationElement
The SoListenerOrientationElement holds the orientation of the current listener.
This orientation is set by SoListener nodes and SoCamera Nodes during audio rendering. When a SoListener
is visited by the SoAudioRenderAction, it will add a new SoListenerOrientationElement to the state,
holding it's orientation and with the setbylistener flag set. When a SoCamera is visited by
SoAudioRenderAction, it will add a new SoListenerOrientationElement only if there are no previous
elements with the setbylistener flag set. "
class SoListenerPositionElement
The SoListenerPositionElement holds the position of the current listener.
This position is set by SoListener nodes and SoCamera Nodes during audio rendering. When a SoListener is
visited by the SoAudioRenderAction, it will add a new SoListenerPositionElement to the state, holding
it's position and with the setbylistener flag set. When a SoCamera is visited by SoAudioRenderAction, it
will add a new SoListenerPositionElement only if there are no previous elements with the setbylistener
flag set. "
class SoLocalBBoxMatrixElement
The SoLocalBBoxMatrixElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoMaterialBindingElement
The SoMaterialBindingElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoModelMatrixElement
The SoModelMatrixElement class is used to manage the current transformation.
SoModelMatrixElement contains the object-to-world matrix. "
class SoMultiTextureEnabledElement
The SoMultiTextureEnabledElement class is an element which stores whether texturing is enabled or not.
Be aware that this class is an extension for Coin, and it is not available in the original SGI Open
Inventor v2.1 API. "
class SoMultiTextureImageElement
The SoMultiTextureImageElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoMultiTextureMatrixElement
The SoMultiTextureMatrixElement class is used to manage the texture matrix stack for texture units > 0.
The texture matrix is used to transform texture coordinates before being used to map textures onto
polygons. "
class SoNormalBindingElement
The SoNormalBindingElement is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoNormalElement
The SoNormalElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoOverrideElement
The SoOverrideElement maintains a list of overridable elements and a list over which elements should be
overridden.
Only certain elements can be overridden. "
class SoPickRayElement
The SoPickRayElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoPickStyleElement
The SoPickStyleElement is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoPointSizeElement
The SoPointSizeElement changes the pointsize setting of the render state.
Requests from the scenegraph to change the pointsize when rendering point primitives will be made through
this element. "
class SoPolygonOffsetElement
The SoPolygonOffsetElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoProfileCoordinateElement
The SoProfileCoordinateElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoProfileElement
The SoProfileElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoReplacedElement
The SoReplacedElement class is an abstract element superclass.
This is the superclass of all elements where the new element data replaces the old data, and where the
data the element stores is not just a simple float or integer value. "
class SoShapeStyleElement
The SoShapeStyleElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoShininessElement
The SoShininessElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoSoundElement
The SoSoundElement is used for optimizing audio rendering and for turning off inactive SoVRMLSound nodes.
class SoSpecularColorElement
The SoSpecularColorElement is yet to be documented.
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class SoSwitchElement
The SoSwitchElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoTextOutlineEnabledElement
The SoTextOutlineEnabledElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoTextureCombineElement
The SoTextureCombineElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoTextureCoordinateBindingElement
The SoTextureCoordinateBindingElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoTextureOverrideElement
The SoTextureOverrideElement makes it possible to override texture elements.
class SoTextureQualityElement
The SoTextureQualityElement is yet to be documented.
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class SoTextureUnitElement
The SoTextureUnitElement class is yet to be documented.
class SoTransparencyElement
The SoTransparencyElement is yet to be documented.
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class SoUnitsElement
The SoUnitsElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoVertexAttributeBindingElement
The SoVertexAttributeBindingElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoViewingMatrixElement
The SoViewingMatrixElement class stores the world-to-camera transformation.
class SoViewportRegionElement
The SoViewportRegionElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoViewVolumeElement
The SoViewVolumeElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoWindowElement
The SoWindowElement class is used to store current window attributes.
In Coin, this element is not API-compatible with SGI Inventor, since it contains platform specific stuff,
which we want to avoid. "
class SoGeoElement
The SoGeoElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
class SoGLShadowCullingElement
The SoGLShadowCullingElement class is yet to be documented.
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class SoShadowStyleElement
The SoShadowStyleElement class is yet to be documented.
FIXME: write doc. "
Detailed Description
The element classes in Coin are the containers of state information during action traversals of scene
graphs. One element usually corresponts to one item of information, or sometimes a group of related
information values. The elements work like a stack that is pushed and popped as the action traverses in
and out of SoSeparator nodes, and the action will always just inspect the top of the stack when it needs
to know a value.
Elements are internal implementation details of the workings of nodes and actions, and is not something
one needs to worry about before writing ones own extension nodes. Writing extension elements is even more
removed from plain Open Inventor usage, but is fully possible for the experienced Open Inventor
developer. The Element Classes Elements are mostly internal to Coin, unless you create new extension
nodes over Coin. Then you will probably need to know about them.
Elements are part of the design for scenegraph traversal in Coin.
It works like this: any traversal action instantiates and keeps a single SoState instance during
traversal. The SoState instance uses SoElement objects as 'memory units' to keep track of the current
state for any feature of the scenegraph nodes.
As an example, consider the SoPointSize node: when the SoPointSize node is traversed by for instance a
SoGLRenderAction, it will itself push a SoPointSizeElement onto the SoGLRenderAction's SoState stack.
Later, when a SoPointSet node occurs in the scenegraph, it will request the current pointsize value from
the SoState by reading off the value of it's SoPointSizeElement.
SoSeparator nodes will push and pop elements on and off the state stack, so anything that changes state
below a SoSeparator node will not influence anything above the SoSeparator.
For more information on the theoretical underpinnings of this traversal design, you should consider
reading available literature on the so-called 'Visitor pattern'. We recommend 'Design Patterns', by
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides (aka the 'Gang Of Four'). This book actually uses the Inventor API
traversal mechanism as the case study for explaining the Visitor pattern.
For extending the Coin library with your own classes, we strongly recommend that you make yourself
acquainted with the excellent «The Inventor Toolmaker» book (ISBN 0-201-62493-1), which describes the
tasks involved in detail. This book was written by the original SGI Inventor designers and explains many
of the underlying design ideas, aswell as having lots of hands-on examples on how to extend the Coin
toolkit in ways that are true to the fundamental design ideas. («The Inventor Toolmaker» is also
available at SGI's online library, at no cost. See Download The Inventor Toolmaker.) Reading the
sourcecode of the built-in classes in Coin should also provide very helpful.
The following is a complete example on how to extend Coin with your own traversal elements. First, the
class declaration of the new element (ie the header include file):
// [texturefilenameelement.h]
#ifndef TEXTUREFILENAMEELEMENT_H
#define TEXTUREFILENAMEELEMENT_H
#include <Inventor/elements/SoReplacedElement.h>
#include <Inventor/SbString.h>
class TextureFilenameElement : public SoReplacedElement {
typedef SoReplacedElement inherited;
SO_ELEMENT_HEADER(TextureFilenameElement);
public:
static void initClass(void);
virtual void init(SoState * state);
static void set(SoState * const state, SoNode * const node,
const SbString & filename);
static const SbString & get(SoState * const state);
static const TextureFilenameElement * getInstance(SoState * state);
protected:
virtual ~TextureFilenameElement();
virtual void setElt(const SbString & filename);
private:
SbString filename;
};
#endif // !TEXTUREFILENAMEELEMENT_H
The implementation of the element:
// [texturefilenameelement.cpp]
//
// The purpose of the code in this file is to demonstrate how you can
// make your own elements for scene graph traversals.
//
// Code by Peder Blekken <pederb@sim.no>. Copyright (C)
// Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies.
#include "texturefilenameelement.h"
SO_ELEMENT_SOURCE(TextureFilenameElement);
void
TextureFilenameElement::initClass(void)
{
SO_ELEMENT_INIT_CLASS(TextureFilenameElement, inherited);
}
void
TextureFilenameElement::init(SoState * state)
{
this->filename = "<none>";
}
TextureFilenameElement::~TextureFilenameElement()
{
}
void
TextureFilenameElement::set(SoState * const state, SoNode * const node,
const SbString & filename)
{
TextureFilenameElement * elem = (TextureFilenameElement *)
SoReplacedElement::getElement(state, classStackIndex, node);
elem->setElt(filename);
}
const SbString &
TextureFilenameElement::get(SoState * const state)
{
return TextureFilenameElement::getInstance(state)->filename;
}
void
TextureFilenameElement::setElt(const SbString & filename)
{
this->filename = filename;
}
const TextureFilenameElement *
TextureFilenameElement::getInstance(SoState * state)
{
return (const TextureFilenameElement *)
SoElement::getConstElement(state, classStackIndex);
}
And a small, stand-alone test application putting the new element to use:
// [lstextures.cpp]
//
// The purpose of this file is to make a small wrapper "tool" around
// the TextureFilenameElement extension element, just for showing
// example code on how to make use of a user-defined custom element.
//
// The code goes like this:
//
// We initialize the element, enable it for the SoCallbackAction, read
// a scene graph file, set callbacks on SoTexture2 and all shape nodes
// and applies the SoCallbackAction. The callbacks will then print out
// the texture filename information from the TextureFilenameElement
// each time an interesting node is hit.
//
//
// Code by Peder Blekken <pederb@sim.no>. Cleaned up, integrated in
// Coin distribution and commented by Morten Eriksen
// <mortene@sim.no>. Copyright (C) Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies.
#include <Inventor/SoDB.h>
#include <Inventor/SoInput.h>
#include <Inventor/actions/SoCallbackAction.h>
#include <Inventor/nodes/SoSeparator.h>
#include <Inventor/nodes/SoTexture2.h>
#include <Inventor/nodes/SoShape.h>
#include <Inventor/misc/SoState.h>
#include <cstdio>
#include "texturefilenameelement.h"
SoCallbackAction::Response
pre_tex2_cb(void * data, SoCallbackAction * action, const SoNode * node)
{
const SbString & filename = ((SoTexture2 *)node)->filename.getValue();
TextureFilenameElement::set(action->getState(), (SoNode *)node, filename);
(void)fprintf(stdout, "=> New texture: %s0,
filename.getLength() == 0 ?
"<inlined>" : filename.getString());
return SoCallbackAction::CONTINUE;
}
SoCallbackAction::Response
pre_shape_cb(void * data, SoCallbackAction * action, const SoNode * node)
{
const SbString & filename =
TextureFilenameElement::get(action->getState());
(void)fprintf(stdout, " Texturemap on %s: %s0,
node->getTypeId().getName().getString(),
filename.getLength() == 0 ?
"<inlined>" : filename.getString());
return SoCallbackAction::CONTINUE;
}
void
usage(const char * appname)
{
(void)fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <modelfile.iv>0, appname);
(void)fprintf(stderr,
"Lists all texture filenames in the model file,0
"and on which shape nodes they are used.0
"The purpose of this example utility is simply to0
"show how to create and use an extension element for0
"scene graph traversal.0);
}
int
main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
if (argc != 2) {
usage(argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
SoDB::init();
TextureFilenameElement::initClass();
SO_ENABLE(SoCallbackAction, TextureFilenameElement);
SoInput input;
if (!input.openFile(argv[1])) {
(void)fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: couldn't open file ``%s''.0, argv[1]);
exit(1);
}
SoSeparator * root = SoDB::readAll(&input);
if (root) {
root->ref();
SoCallbackAction cbaction;
cbaction.addPreCallback(SoTexture2::getClassTypeId(), pre_tex2_cb, NULL);
cbaction.addPreCallback(SoShape::getClassTypeId(), pre_shape_cb, NULL);
cbaction.apply(root);
root->unref();
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
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