From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 09/27/2000 06:04:10
We can manage just a little better than basic intersections in the
pguide examples, try:
/usr/share/Performer/src/pguide/libpfui/pick.c
This used pfiPick which you might find handy. There's also a man page on
pfiPick.
Cheers,Angus.
"Tomlinson, Gordon" wrote:
>
> Hi Mark
>
> If you use Vega tool kit which sits on top and enhance
> Performer at all then the latest release for
> both Irix and NT v3.5, have Picking built in to the kernel
> you can use the vgPicker Class to put picking into
> your app or use the one of the new motion models that
> has picking built in such as vgPickFly.
>
> vgPickFly lets you pick at several levels pfGeoSet, pfGeode,
> vgPart, vgObject and vgPlayers ( groups of objects). You can
> have single pick modes or multiple pick modes. You can have
> the selected geometry highlighted in several different ways.
>
> And if the selected objects are DCS, vgObjects or vgPlayers
> then you can move these around with in the scene by dragging
> the mouse etc...
>
> As to picking just in plain old Performer the is a example in
> the sample code supplied with Performer, on how to do basic
> intersections /usr/share/Performer/src/pgguide/libpf/
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Evans [mailto:mrrevans++at++yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 5:26 AM
> To: info-performer++at++sgi.com
> Subject: pick example
>
> I would need a pick example in Performer. I need to
> load a few *.flt files, add them under different
> SCS,and enable picking of some of these flt objects,
> and detect which one of the objects was picked. Where
> could I find some sample code? Is there a pickfly
> application?
>
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