Re: picking points unsupported...

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From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 10/20/2000 12:32:15

pfipick uses intersections, since lines and points will not intersect
(they have no 3D size/width) this will not change without using a
different method of picking or changing the intersection with those
primitives. This will not be done for 2.4.

Cheers,ANgus.

Nigel Jenkins wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I've writing an application which requires picking points/lightpoints, using
> pfChanPick, currently the man pages say this isn't supported is there any
> plan to support point/line picking in the 2.4 release?
>
> Has anyone else come up with a similar problem and come up with an elegant
> solution (I've got 10K points to pick between!).
>
> cheers
>
> Nigel
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