The sodragger class is the base class for all draggers. draggers is a mechanism used for letting the end-users of your application code interact with elements in 3d, by scaling, rotating or translating geometry or other instances in the scene (like cameras or lightsources).
#include <Inventor/draggers/SoDragger.h>
Inherits SoInteractionKit.
Inherited by SoCenterballDragger, SoDirectionalLightDragger, SoDragPointDragger, SoHandleBoxDragger, SoJackDragger, SoPointLightDragger, SoRotateCylindricalDragger, SoRotateDiscDragger, SoRotateSphericalDragger, SoScale1Dragger, SoScale2Dragger, SoScale2UniformDragger, SoScaleUniformDragger, SoSpotLightDragger, SoTabBoxDragger, SoTabPlaneDragger, SoTrackballDragger, SoTransformBoxDragger, SoTransformerDragger, SoTranslate1Dragger, and SoTranslate2Dragger.
enum ProjectorFrontSetting { FRONT, BACK, USE_PICK }
virtual SoType getTypeId (void) const
Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and 'downward' casting. virtual const SoNodekitCatalog * getNodekitCatalog (void) const
virtual void callback (SoCallbackAction *action)
virtual void GLRender (SoGLRenderAction *action)
virtual void getMatrix (SoGetMatrixAction *action)
virtual void rayPick (SoRayPickAction *action)
virtual void search (SoSearchAction *action)
virtual void write (SoWriteAction *action)
virtual void getPrimitiveCount (SoGetPrimitiveCountAction *action)
void setProjectorEpsilon (const float epsilon)
float getProjectorEpsilon (void) const
void addStartCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void removeStartCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void addMotionCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void removeMotionCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void addFinishCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void removeFinishCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void addValueChangedCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void removeValueChangedCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void setMinGesture (int pixels)
int getMinGesture (void) const
SbBool enableValueChangedCallbacks (SbBool newval)
const SbMatrix & getMotionMatrix (void)
void addOtherEventCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void removeOtherEventCallback (SoDraggerCB *func, void *data=NULL)
void registerChildDragger (SoDragger *child)
void unregisterChildDragger (SoDragger *child)
void registerChildDraggerMovingIndependently (SoDragger *child)
void unregisterChildDraggerMovingIndependently (SoDragger *child)
SbMatrix getLocalToWorldMatrix (void)
SbMatrix getWorldToLocalMatrix (void)
SbVec3f getLocalStartingPoint (void)
SbVec3f getWorldStartingPoint (void)
void getPartToLocalMatrix (const SbName &partname, SbMatrix &parttolocalmatrix, SbMatrix &localtopartmatrix)
void transformMatrixLocalToWorld (const SbMatrix &frommatrix, SbMatrix &tomatrix)
void transformMatrixWorldToLocal (const SbMatrix &frommatrix, SbMatrix &tomatrix)
void transformMatrixToLocalSpace (const SbMatrix &frommatrix, SbMatrix &tomatrix, const SbName &fromspacepartname)
virtual void setMotionMatrix (const SbMatrix &newmatrix)
void valueChanged (void)
const SbMatrix & getStartMotionMatrix (void)
virtual void saveStartParameters (void)
const SoPath * getPickPath (void) const
const SoEvent * getEvent (void) const
SoPath * createPathToThis (void)
const SoPath * getSurrogatePartPickedOwner (void) const
const SbName & getSurrogatePartPickedName (void) const
const SoPath * getSurrogatePartPickedPath (void) const
void setStartingPoint (const SoPickedPoint *newpoint)
void setStartingPoint (const SbVec3f &newpoint)
const SbViewVolume & getViewVolume (void)
void setViewVolume (const SbViewVolume &vol)
const SbViewportRegion & getViewportRegion (void)
void setViewportRegion (const SbViewportRegion ®)
SoHandleEventAction * getHandleEventAction (void) const
void setHandleEventAction (SoHandleEventAction *newAction)
void setTempPathToThis (const SoPath *somethingclose)
virtual void grabEventsSetup (void)
virtual void grabEventsCleanup (void)
void workFieldsIntoTransform (SbMatrix &mtx)
void setFrontOnProjector (ProjectorFrontSetting newval)
ProjectorFrontSetting getFrontOnProjector (void) const
static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
static const SoNodekitCatalog * getClassNodekitCatalog (void)
static void setMinScale (float newminscale)
static float getMinScale (void)
static void workValuesIntoTransform (SbMatrix &mtx, const SbVec3f *translationptr, const SbRotation *rotationptr, const SbVec3f *scalefactorptr, const SbRotation *scaleorientationptr, const SbVec3f *centerptr)
static void getTransformFast (SbMatrix &mtx, SbVec3f &translation, SbRotation &rotation, SbVec3f &scalefactor, SbRotation &scaleorientation, const SbVec3f ¢er)
static void getTransformFast (SbMatrix &mtx, SbVec3f &translation, SbRotation &rotation, SbVec3f &scalefactor, SbRotation &scaleorientation)
static SbMatrix appendTranslation (const SbMatrix &mtx, const SbVec3f &translation, const SbMatrix *conversion=NULL)
static SbMatrix appendScale (const SbMatrix &mtx, const SbVec3f &scale, const SbVec3f &scalecenter, const SbMatrix *conversion=NULL)
static SbMatrix appendRotation (const SbMatrix &mtx, const SbRotation &rot, const SbVec3f &rotcenter, const SbMatrix *conversion=NULL)
static void initClass (void)
static void initClasses (void)
SoSFBool isActive
virtual const SoFieldData * getFieldData (void) const
SoDragger (void)
virtual ~SoDragger (void)
SbVec2f getNormalizedLocaterPosition (void)
SbVec2s getLocaterPosition (void)
SbVec2s getStartLocaterPosition (void) const
void setStartLocaterPosition (SbVec2s p)
SbBool isAdequateConstraintMotion (void)
virtual SbBool shouldGrabBasedOnSurrogate (const SoPath *pickpath, const SoPath *surrogatepath)
void setCameraInfo (SoAction *action)
virtual void handleEvent (SoHandleEventAction *ha)
void transferMotion (SoDragger *child)
void setIgnoreInBbox (SbBool newval)
SbBool isIgnoreInBbox (void)
virtual void getBoundingBox (SoGetBoundingBoxAction *action)
void setActiveChildDragger (SoDragger *newchilddragger)
SoDragger * getActiveChildDragger (void) const
virtual void setDefaultOnNonWritingFields (void)
void updateDraggerCache (const SoPath *path)
static const SoFieldData ** getFieldDataPtr (void)
static const SoNodekitCatalog ** getClassNodekitCatalogPtr (void)
static void childTransferMotionAndValueChangedCB (void *, SoDragger *)
static void childValueChangedCB (void *, SoDragger *)
static void childStartCB (void *, SoDragger *)
static void childMotionCB (void *, SoDragger *)
static void childFinishCB (void *, SoDragger *)
static void childOtherEventCB (void *, SoDragger *)
SoSFNode motionMatrix
The SoDragger class is the base class for all draggers.
Draggers is a mechanism used for letting the end-users of your application code interact with elements in 3D, by scaling, rotating or translating geometry or other instances in the scene (like cameras or lightsources).
For a very thorough introduction and tutorial to the dragger classes and general concepts, we advise you to consult «The Inventor Mentor», ISBN 0-201-62495-8, chapter 15.
This is the common superclass for all dragger classes.
It holds the current motion matrix, and offers lots of convenience methods to build from for it's subclasses -- that is, the non-abstract dragger classes to use as nodes in your scenegraph.
The motion matrix is used to modify the model matrix during traversal, and this is a common dragger mechanism -- all draggers should update this during dragging.
A number of the Coin dragger classes have built-in convenience wrapper classes, called manipulators. See for instance the SoTrackballDragger / SoTrackballManip pair.
The matching manipulator class for any dragger class has basically two convenient additions to the functionality of the stand-alone dragger: 1) it makes swapping the dragger in and out of the scenegraph very straightforward (something which is often done for draggers in 3D user interfaces), 2) it wraps up the dragger with SoSurroundScale and SoAntiSquish nodes where applicable, so the dragger geometry automatically scales up or down to match the geometry it influences.
This last functionality can also be duplicated in a rather straightforward manner outside of the context of a manipulator, as can be seen from the usage example in the SoSurroundScale class documentation.
The appearance of draggers can be modified by either using the SoDragger::setPart() method (see usage example below) or by setting up external Inventor-format files which the geometry parts are read from. The latter method can be done by setting the environment variable SO_DRAGGER_DIR to point to a directory with replacement geometry files. The name of the new files and the name of the nodes / sub-graphs with the replacement geometries must follow a rigid scheme. We advise you to look at the Coin sourcecode directory Coin/data/draggerDefaults/ to see how the replacement geometry files should be named. Setting SO_DRAGGER_DIR to this directory and modifying the files there provides a convenient way to play around with new dragger geometry arrangements.
As mentioned above, SoDragger::setPart() can be used to modify the appearance of a dragger by changing it's default geometry. One common technique is for instance to take advantage of this to use only parts of a dragger, by replacing / disabling the geometry that you don't want the end-user to interact with. The following code example shows how to remove the translation functionality of the SoTransformBoxDragger:
#include <Inventor/Qt/SoQt.h> #include <Inventor/Qt/viewers/SoQtExaminerViewer.h> #include <Inventor/draggers/SoTransformBoxDragger.h> #include <Inventor/nodes/SoSeparator.h> int main(int argc, char ** argv) { QWidget * window = SoQt::init(argv[0]); SoTransformBoxDragger * dragger = new SoTransformBoxDragger; SbString str; for (int i = 1; i <= 6; i++) { str.sprintf("translator%d.translator", i); dragger->setPart(str.getString(), new SoSeparator); } SoQtExaminerViewer * viewer = new SoQtExaminerViewer(window); viewer->setSceneGraph(dragger); viewer->show(); SoQt::show(window); SoQt::mainLoop(); delete viewer; return 0; }
Draggers are also node kits, and below is the catalog structure for this top-level dragger class.
Node kit structure (new entries versus parent class marked with arrow prefix):
CLASS SoDragger -->"this" "callbackList" "topSeparator" --> "motionMatrix" "geomSeparator"
(See SoBaseKit::printDiagram() for information about the output formatting.)
Detailed information on catalog parts:
CLASS SoDragger PVT "this", SoDragger --- "callbackList", SoNodeKitListPart [ SoCallback, SoEventCallback ] PVT "topSeparator", SoSeparator --- PVT "motionMatrix", SoMatrixTransform --- PVT "geomSeparator", SoSeparator ---
(See SoBaseKit::printTable() for information about the output formatting.)
Holds various settings for projectors, which might affect cylindrical and spherical based draggers. Specifies whether dragging should be based on the front or back of the sphere / cylinder, or if the picked point should be used to decide this.
Enumerator
FRONT
Always use front of projector.
BACK
Always use back of projector.
USE_PICK
Use picked point to decide front or back of projector.
A protected constructor for this abstract superclass for all Coin draggers.
Virtual protected destructor.
Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoBase. This is used for run-time type checking and 'downward' casting. Usage example:
void foo(SoNode * node) { if (node->getTypeId() == SoFile::getClassTypeId()) { SoFile * filenode = (SoFile *)node; // safe downward cast, knows the type } }
For application programmers wanting to extend the library with new nodes, engines, nodekits, draggers or others: 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 for instance Inventor/nodes/SoSubNode.h (SO_NODE_INIT_CLASS and SO_NODE_CONSTRUCTOR for node classes), Inventor/engines/SoSubEngine.h (for engine classes) and so on.
For more information on writing Coin extensions, see the class documentation of the toplevel superclasses for the various class groups.
Reimplemented from SoInteractionKit.
Reimplemented in SoTrackballDragger, SoRotateSphericalDragger, SoSpotLightDragger, SoTransformerDragger, SoHandleBoxDragger, SoScale2UniformDragger, SoTabPlaneDragger, SoTranslate1Dragger, SoTranslate2Dragger, SoCenterballDragger, SoDirectionalLightDragger, SoJackDragger, SoRotateCylindricalDragger, SoRotateDiscDragger, SoScale1Dragger, SoScale2Dragger, SoScaleUniformDragger, SoTransformBoxDragger, SoDragPointDragger, SoPointLightDragger, and SoTabBoxDragger.
Returns a pointer to the class-wide field data storage object for this instance. If no fields are present, returns NULL.
Reimplemented from SoInteractionKit.
Reimplemented in SoTrackballDragger, SoRotateSphericalDragger, SoSpotLightDragger, SoTransformerDragger, SoHandleBoxDragger, SoScale2UniformDragger, SoTabPlaneDragger, SoTranslate1Dragger, SoTranslate2Dragger, SoCenterballDragger, SoDirectionalLightDragger, SoJackDragger, SoRotateCylindricalDragger, SoRotateDiscDragger, SoScale1Dragger, SoScale2Dragger, SoScaleUniformDragger, SoTransformBoxDragger, SoDragPointDragger, SoPointLightDragger, and SoTabBoxDragger.
Returns the nodekit catalog which defines the layout of this class' kit.
Reimplemented from SoInteractionKit.
Reimplemented in SoTrackballDragger, SoRotateSphericalDragger, SoSpotLightDragger, SoTransformerDragger, SoHandleBoxDragger, SoScale2UniformDragger, SoTabPlaneDragger, SoTranslate1Dragger, SoTranslate2Dragger, SoCenterballDragger, SoDirectionalLightDragger, SoJackDragger, SoRotateCylindricalDragger, SoRotateDiscDragger, SoScale1Dragger, SoScale2Dragger, SoScaleUniformDragger, SoTransformBoxDragger, SoDragPointDragger, SoPointLightDragger, and SoTabBoxDragger.
Action method for SoCallbackAction.
Simply updates the state according to how the node behaves for the render action, so the application programmer can use the SoCallbackAction for extracting information about the scene graph.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Action method for the SoGLRenderAction.
This is called during rendering traversals. Nodes influencing the rendering state in any way or who wants to throw geometry primitives at OpenGL overrides this method.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Reimplemented in SoTabPlaneDragger.
Action method for SoGetMatrixAction.
Updates action by accumulating with the transformation matrix of this node (if any).
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Reimplemented in SoCenterballDragger.
Action method for SoRayPickAction.
Checks the ray specification of the action and tests for intersection with the data of the node.
Nodes influencing relevant state variables for how picking is done also overrides this method.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Action method for SoSearchAction.
Compares the search criteria from the action to see if this node is a match. Searching is done by matching up all criteria set up in the SoSearchAction -- if any of the requested criteria is a miss, the search is not deemed successful for the node.
See also:
SoSearchAction
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Action method for SoWriteAction.
Writes out a node object, and any connected nodes, engines etc, if necessary.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Action method for the SoGetPrimitiveCountAction.
Calculates the number of triangle, line segment and point primitives for the node and adds these to the counters of the action.
Nodes influencing how geometry nodes calculates their primitive count also overrides this method to change the relevant state variables.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Sets the epsilon used for restricting the draggers when the intersection line is almost parallel with the projector direction.
For line projectors this is based on the dot product between the picking ray and the projector line. For plane projector, the dot product between the plane normal and the picking ray is used.
Default value is 0.0.
Since:
Coin 3.0
Adds a callback which is called at the start of a drag, after the mouse button 1 is pressed, and dragger is picked.
Removes a previously registered start callback.
See also:
addStartCallback()
Adds a callback which is called for each mouse movement during dragging.
Removes a previously registered motion callback.
See also:
addMotionCallback()
Adds a callback which is called after dragging is finished.
Removes a finish callback.
See also:
addFinishCallback()
Adds a callback which is called after a dragger has changed a field. It is not called if the SoDragger::isActive field is changed.
See also:
enableValueChangedCallback()
Removes a value changed callback.
See also:
addValueChangedCallback()
Sets the number of pixel movement needed to trigger a constraint gesture. Default is 8 pixels.
Returns the gesture pixels threshold value.
See also:
setMinGesture()
Enable or disable 'value changed' callbacks.
See also:
addValueChangedCallback()
Returns the motion matrix for this dragger.
Adds an event callback for events other then drag events. As soon as dragging starts, the dragger grabs all events (until mouse button is released). This method can be used to handle other events during dragging.
Removes a other event callback.
See also:
addOtherEventCallback()
Should be called by compound draggers to register child draggers.
Should be called by compound draggers to unregister child draggers.
Should be called by compund draggers to register child draggers that should move independently of their parent.
Should be called by compund draggers to unregister child draggers.
See also:
registerChildDraggerMovingIndependently()
Returns a matrix that converts from local to world space.
Returns a matrix that converts from world to local space.
Returns the drag starting point in the local coordinate system.
Returns the drag starting point in the world coordinate system.
Returns matrices that will convert between local space and the space in which partname lies in.
Convenience method that transforms the local frommatrix to a world coordinate systems matrix.
Convenience method that transforms the world frommatrix to a local coordinate systems matrix.
Transforms a matrix that lies in the frompartname coordinate system into the local coordinate system.
Sets a new current motion matrix for the dragger geometry.
Triggers value changed callbacks if matrix is unequal to the previous motion matrix.
Reimplemented in SoTranslate2Dragger, and SoTranslate1Dragger.
Can be called by subclasses to trigger value changed callbacks. This might be needed if a field is changed without changing the motion matrix.
Returns the motion matrix as it was when saveStartParameters() was called.
This is invoked to save start parameters, to enable draggers to calculate relative motion.
Default method in superclass SoDragger just saves the motion matrix, but subclasses should overload this method if other data needs to be saved.
Reimplemented in SoCenterballDragger.
Returns the picked path.
Returns the current event.
Creates a new path to this dragger. Don't forget to ref() and unref() since this method creates a fresh copy for you.
Returns the path to the SoInteractionKit that holds the current surrogate path.
Returns the name of the path in the SoInteractionKit that holds the current surrogate path.
Returns the current surrogate path.
Sets the staring point for the drag. point is usually a picked point from a SoRayPickAction.
Sets the starting point for a drag.
Return the current view volume.
Sets the current view volume.
Returns the current viewport region.
Sets the current viewport region.
Return the current (most recent) SoHandleEventAction.
Stores a handle event action.
This function is part of the original SGI Inventor 2.1 API, but has not been implemented in Coin as it looks like a function which should probably have been private in Open Inventor.
Called when dragger starts grabbing events (mouse button down). Overload if you need to do something extra in your dragger.
See also:
grabEventCleanup()
Reimplemented from SoNode.
Called when dragger stops grabbing events (mouse button up).
See also:
grabEventSetup()
Reimplemented from SoNode.
Examines the fields of the dragger, changes the matrix according to those fields and leaves the rest of the matrix as it was. The following field names are supported: translation, scaleFactor, rotation and scaleOrientation.
Controls the behaviour of the SbProjector.
Returns the behaviour of the SbProjector.
Sets the minimum scale value all scale factors are clamped against. This is used in workFieldsIntoTransform(). The default value is 0.01
Returns the minimum scale value.
See also:
setMinScale()
Same as above, but pointers to values are supplied. If a pointer is NULL, the matrix value for that argument is used when reconstructing the matrix.
Can be used when there is no scaleorientation. Faster than SoDragger::workValuesIntoTransform().
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts.
Returns matrix after translation has been appended. If conversion != NULL it is used to transform translation into the space matrix is defined.
Returns matrix after scale and scalecenter has been appended. If conversion != NULL it is used to transform scale into the space matrix is defined.
Appends rot, around rotcenter, to matrix. If conversion is != NULL, this is used to move the rotation into that coordinate systems before appending the rotation.
Initializes type system for this dragger class.
Application programmers should usually not have to invoke this method, see documentation of SoInteraction::init().
Initializes all built-in draggers.
Returns the position of the locater.
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts.
Returns the position when mouse button 1 was pressed.
The start locater position is automatically set when mouse button 1 goes down, but subclasses can use this method to reset the value.
Checks if the mouse pointer has been moved enough after the end-user hit a constraint mode key (which is typically SHIFT, sometimes also CTRL for the built-in draggers) that we should act upon and decide which direction the constraint should be set to.
Checks if pickpath contains surrogatepath and returns TRUE if the tail of surrogatepath is before any dragger in pickpath.
Store data about the current camera in the given action.
Action method for SoHandleEventAction.
Inspects the event data from action, and processes it if it is something which this node should react to.
Nodes influencing relevant state variables for how event handling is done also overrides this method.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
Sets whether dragger geometry should be ignored when calculating bbox.
Returns whether dragger geometry should be ignored when calculating bbox.
Action method for the SoGetBoundingBoxAction.
Calculates bounding box and center coordinates for node and modifies the values of the action to encompass the bounding box for this node and to shift the center point for the scene more towards the one for this node.
Nodes influencing how geometry nodes calculates their bounding box also overrides this method to change the relevant state variables.
Reimplemented from SoBaseKit.
Reimplemented in SoCenterballDragger.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
(Be aware that this method is unlikely to be of interest to the application programmer who does not want to extend the library with new custom nodekits or draggers. If you indeed are writing extensions, see the information in the SoBaseKit class documentation.)
This is a virtual method, and the code in it should call SoField::setDefault() with argument TRUE on part fields that should not be written upon scenegraph export operations.
This is typically done when:
field value is NULL and part is NULL by default
it is a leaf SoGroup or SoSeparator node with no children
it is a leaf listpart with no children and an SoGroup or SoSeparator container
it is a non-leaf part and it's of SoGroup type and all fields are at their default values
Subclasses should usually override this to do additional settings for new member fields. From the subclass, do remember to call 'upwards' to your superclass' setDefaultOnNonWritingFields() method.
Reimplemented from SoInteractionKit.
Reimplemented in SoTransformerDragger, SoHandleBoxDragger, SoDragPointDragger, SoTransformBoxDragger, SoTrackballDragger, SoCenterballDragger, SoTabPlaneDragger, SoTabBoxDragger, SoSpotLightDragger, SoDirectionalLightDragger, SoJackDragger, and SoPointLightDragger.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
Is TRUE whenever the user is interacting with the dragger. For compound draggers (draggers consisting of one or more subdraggers), the isActive field is updated only for the active subdragger, not for the compound dragger.
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