SoPickAction Class Reference

The SoPickAction class is the base class for picking actions. More...

#include <Inventor/actions/SoPickAction.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoPickAction:

Public Member Functions
virtual SoType	getTypeId (void) const
void	setViewportRegion (const SbViewportRegion &newregion)
const SbViewportRegion &	getViewportRegion (void) const
void	enableCulling (const SbBool flag)
SbBool	isCullingEnabled (void) const
Public Member Functions inherited from SoAction
virtual	~SoAction (void)
virtual SbBool	isOfType (SoType type) const
virtual void	apply (SoNode *root)
virtual void	apply (SoPath *path)
virtual void	apply (const SoPathList &pathlist, SbBool obeysrules=FALSE)
void	apply (SoAction *beingApplied)
virtual void	invalidateState (void)
AppliedCode	getWhatAppliedTo (void) const
SoNode *	getNodeAppliedTo (void) const
SoPath *	getPathAppliedTo (void) const
const SoPathList *	getPathListAppliedTo (void) const
const SoPathList *	getOriginalPathListAppliedTo (void) const
SbBool	isLastPathListAppliedTo (void) const
PathCode	getPathCode (int &numindices, const int *&indices)
void	traverse (SoNode *const node)
SbBool	hasTerminated (void) const
const SoPath *	getCurPath (void)
SoState *	getState (void) const
PathCode	getCurPathCode (void) const
virtual SoNode *	getCurPathTail (void)
void	usePathCode (int &numindices, const int *&indices)
void	pushCurPath (const int childindex, SoNode *node=NULL)
void	popCurPath (const PathCode prevpathcode)
void	pushCurPath (void)
void	popPushCurPath (const int childindex, SoNode *node=NULL)
void	popCurPath (void)
void	switchToPathTraversal (SoPath *path)
void	switchToNodeTraversal (SoNode *node)

Static Public Member Functions
static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)
static void	addMethod (const SoType type, SoActionMethod method)
static void	enableElement (const SoType type, const int stackindex)
static void	initClass (void)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoAction
static void	initClass (void)
static void	initClasses (void)
static SoType	getClassTypeId (void)
static void	nullAction (SoAction *action, SoNode *node)

Protected Member Functions
virtual const SoEnabledElementsList &	getEnabledElements (void) const
	SoPickAction (const SbViewportRegion &viewportregion)
virtual	~SoPickAction (void)
virtual void	beginTraversal (SoNode *node)
Protected Member Functions inherited from SoAction
	SoAction (void)
virtual void	endTraversal (SoNode *node)
void	setTerminated (const SbBool flag)
virtual SbBool	shouldCompactPathList (void) const

Static Protected Member Functions
static SoEnabledElementsList *	getClassEnabledElements (void)
static SoActionMethodList *	getClassActionMethods (void)
Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoAction
static SoEnabledElementsList *	getClassEnabledElements (void)
static SoActionMethodList *	getClassActionMethods (void)

Protected Attributes
SbViewportRegion	vpRegion
Protected Attributes inherited from SoAction
SoState *	state
SoActionMethodList *	traversalMethods

Additional Inherited Members
Public Types inherited from SoAction
enum	AppliedCode { NODE = 0, PATH = 1, PATH_LIST = 2 }
enum	PathCode { NO_PATH = 0, IN_PATH = 1, BELOW_PATH = 2, OFF_PATH = 3 }

Detailed Description

The SoPickAction class is the base class for picking actions.

The basis for all interaction features that Coin provides for the application programmer is the pick actions. Draggers, manipulators, SoSelection nodes, etc all make use of the functionality provided by the pick actions for selecting and manipulating scene geometry in various ways.

This class is not supposed to be used directly by the application programmer, as it is more a place-holder for the common interface of picking operations. It does not contain any actual code for doing scenegraph picks.

Coin provides a fully functional picking action for the application programmer to use through the SoRayPickAction class (which inherits the SoPickAction class).

See also

SoSelection

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoPickAction()

SoPickAction::SoPickAction ( const SbViewportRegion &  viewportregion )

protected

Constructor.

~SoPickAction()

SoPickAction::~SoPickAction ( void  )

protectedvirtual

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

getTypeId()

SoType SoPickAction::getTypeId ( void  ) const

virtual

Returns the type identification of an action derived from a class inheriting SoAction. This is used for run-time type checking and "downward" casting.

Usage example:

void bar(SoAction * action)
{
  if (action->getTypeId() == SoGLRenderAction::getClassTypeId()) {
    // safe downward cast, know the type
    SoGLRenderAction * glrender = (SoGLRenderAction *)action;
  }
  return; // ignore if not renderaction
}

For application programmers wanting to extend the library with new actions: this method needs to be overridden in all subclasses. This is typically done as part of setting up the full type system for extension classes, which is usually accomplished by using the pre-defined macros available through Inventor/nodes/SoSubAction.h: SO_ACTION_SOURCE, SO_ACTION_INIT_CLASS and SO_ACTION_CONSTRUCTOR.

For more information on writing Coin extensions, see the SoAction class documentation.

Returns the actual type id of an object derived from a class inheriting SoAction. Needs to be overridden in all subclasses.

Implements SoAction.

Reimplemented in SoRayPickAction.

addMethod()

void SoPickAction::addMethod ( const SoType  type, SoActionMethod  method  )

static

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

enableElement()

void SoPickAction::enableElement ( const SoType  type, const int  stackindex  )

static

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

getEnabledElements()

const SoEnabledElementsList & SoPickAction::getEnabledElements ( void  ) const

protectedvirtual

Returns a list of the elements used by action instances of this class upon traversal operations.

Reimplemented from SoAction.

Reimplemented in SoRayPickAction.

setViewportRegion()

void SoPickAction::setViewportRegion

(

const SbViewportRegion &

newregion

)

Set a new viewport region to replace the one passed in with the constructor.

getViewportRegion()

const SbViewportRegion & SoPickAction::getViewportRegion

(

void

)

const

Returns the viewport region used by the action.

enableCulling()

void SoPickAction::enableCulling

(

const SbBool

flag

)

Don't calculate bounding boxes and try to do culling when picking.

This can provide a speed-up in cases where the default setting of on would be inefficient.

isCullingEnabled()

SbBool SoPickAction::isCullingEnabled

(

void

)

const

Returns the current state of the culling flag.

beginTraversal()

void SoPickAction::beginTraversal ( SoNode *  node )

protectedvirtual

This virtual method is called from SoAction::apply(), and is the entry point for the actual scenegraph traversal.

It can be overridden to initialize the action at traversal start, for specific initializations in the action subclasses inheriting SoAction.

Default method just calls traverse(), which any overridden implementation of the method must do too (or call SoAction::beginTraversal()) to trigger the scenegraph traversal.

Reimplemented from SoAction.

Reimplemented in SoRayPickAction.

Member Data Documentation

vpRegion

SbViewportRegion SoPickAction::vpRegion

protected

The viewport region used by pick actions.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• SoPickAction.h
• SoPickAction.cpp