Re: Objects in strings
Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:54:30 -0700
William Sherman -Visualization wrote:
>
> Performers,
>
> 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?
pfFont, pfString, pfText, pfdLoadFont.
Cheers,Angus.
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