William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:35:05 -0500 (CDT)
I have a couple of questions. I'll include the easy one first.
In some Inventor programs I wrote a while back, I often included
ascii descriptions of simple objects directly in the executable,
stored as strings. The MakeObject() function then converted the
Ascii-Inventor format into a node/graph.
I would like to be able to do this in Performer, but haven't
had any luck finding a similar function.
I found a function: pfdConvertFrom(), which given the arguments
in the man page I thought might be the answer. But, after figuring
out that the man page had the arguments in the wrong order, I also
figured out that it wanted to convert an Inventor SceneGraph into
Performer, not an Inventor String.
Is there an easy way to do this?
And, thinking for the future, will this be possible in OpenGL++,
or whatever will come out next? I thought it was a really handy
feature of Inventor.
Thanks,
Bill
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