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SoNodeEngine Class Reference
[Engine classes]

#include <Inventor/engines/SoNodeEngine.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoNodeEngine:

SoNode SoFieldContainer SoBase SoVRMLInterpolator SoVRMLTimeSensor SoVRMLColorInterpolator SoVRMLCoordinateInterpolator SoVRMLNormalInterpolator SoVRMLOrientationInterpolator SoVRMLPositionInterpolator SoVRMLScalarInterpolator List of all members.

Detailed Description

SoNodeEngine is the base class for Coin node engines.

Node engines have the same functionality as normal engines, except that they inherit SoNode, which makes it possible to insert node engines in the scene graph.

The main rationale for this class is to simplify the implementation of VRML interpolator nodes, which are in a sense engines embedded in the shape of ordinary nodes.

This class will likely be of no interest to the Coin application programmers, and you can safely ignore it.

Be aware that this class is an extension for Coin, and it is not available in the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.


Public Member Functions

void evaluateWrapper (void)
virtual int getOutputs (SoEngineOutputList &l) const
SoEngineOutputgetOutput (const SbName &outputname) const
SbBool getOutputName (const SoEngineOutput *output, SbName &outputname) const
virtual const SoEngineOutputData * getOutputData (void) const=0
SbBool isNotifying (void) const
virtual void notify (SoNotList *nl)
virtual void writeInstance (SoOutput *out)

Static Public Member Functions

void initClass (void)
SoType getClassTypeId (void)

Protected Member Functions

 SoNodeEngine (void)
virtual ~SoNodeEngine ()
virtual void evaluate (void)=0
virtual SbBool readInstance (SoInput *in, unsigned short flags)
virtual void inputChanged (SoField *which)
void writeOutputTypes (SoOutput *out)

Static Protected Member Functions

const SoFieldData ** getFieldDataPtr (void)
const SoEngineOutputData ** getOutputDataPtr (void)


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoNodeEngine::SoNodeEngine void   )  [protected]
 

Default constructor.

SoNodeEngine::~SoNodeEngine  )  [protected, virtual]
 

Destructor.


Member Function Documentation

void SoNodeEngine::initClass void   )  [static]
 

Sets up initialization for data common to all instances of this class, like submitting necessary information to the Coin type system.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

Reimplemented in SoVRMLColorInterpolator, SoVRMLCoordinateInterpolator, SoVRMLInterpolator, SoVRMLNormalInterpolator, SoVRMLOrientationInterpolator, SoVRMLPositionInterpolator, SoVRMLScalarInterpolator, and SoVRMLTimeSensor.

SoType SoNodeEngine::getClassTypeId void   )  [static]
 

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

void SoNodeEngine::evaluateWrapper void   ) 
 

Triggers an engine evaluation.

int SoNodeEngine::getOutputs SoEngineOutputList l  )  const [virtual]
 

Adds all outputs to list. Returns the number of outputs added to the list.

SoEngineOutput * SoNodeEngine::getOutput const SbName outputname  )  const
 

Returns the output with name outputname, or NULL if no such output exists.

SbBool SoNodeEngine::getOutputName const SoEngineOutput output,
SbName outputname
const
 

Sets to the name of output. Returns FALSE if no such output is contained within the engine instance.

const SoEngineOutputData * SoNodeEngine::getOutputData void   )  const [pure virtual]
 

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.

SbBool SoNodeEngine::isNotifying void   )  const
 

Returns whether we're in a notification process. This is needed to avoid double notification when an engine enables outputs during inputChanged().

void SoNodeEngine::notify SoNotList nl  )  [virtual]
 

Notifies all auditors for this instance when changes are made.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

Reimplemented in SoVRMLTimeSensor.

void SoNodeEngine::writeInstance SoOutput out  )  [virtual]
 

This method is called from write() if the actual writing pass of the write action is taking place. It dumps the node to the given out output stream.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

void SoNodeEngine::evaluate void   )  [protected, pure virtual]
 

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.

SbBool SoNodeEngine::readInstance SoInput in,
unsigned short  flags
[protected, virtual]
 

This method is mainly intended for internal use during file import operations.

It reads a definition of an instance from the input stream in. The input stream state points to the start of a serialized / persistant representation of an instance of this class type.

TRUE or FALSE is returned, depending on if the instantiation and configuration of the new object of this class type went ok or not. The import process should be robust and handle corrupted input streams by returning FALSE.

flags is used internally during binary import when reading user extension nodes, group nodes or engines.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

void SoNodeEngine::inputChanged SoField which  )  [protected, virtual]
 

Called when an input is changed. The default method does nothing, but subclasses may override this method to do the The Right Thing when a specific field is changed.

Reimplemented in SoVRMLTimeSensor.

const SoFieldData ** SoNodeEngine::getFieldDataPtr void   )  [static, protected]
 

Returns the SoFieldData class which holds information about inputs in this engine.

Reimplemented from SoNode.

const SoEngineOutputData ** SoNodeEngine::getOutputDataPtr void   )  [static, protected]
 

Returns the SoEngineOutputData class which holds information about the outputs in this engine.

void SoNodeEngine::writeOutputTypes SoOutput out  )  [protected]
 

Writes the types of engine outputs for extension engines (i.e. engines not built in to Coin).


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