SoTabPlaneDragger — object you can translate or scale within a plane by dragging with the mouse
Contents
Catalog Parts
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│ Allparts │
│ NULLby │
│ PartNamePartTypeDefaultTypeDefault │
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│ callbackList NodeKitListPart -- yes │
│ translator Separator -- yes │
│ scaleTabMaterial Material -- yes │
│ scaleTabHints ShapeHints -- yes │
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│ Extrainformationforlistpartsfromabovetable │
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│ PartNameContainerTypePermissibleTypes │
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│ callbackList Separator Callback, EventCallback │
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Description
SoTabPlaneDragger is a dragger which allows the user to interactively translate and scale in a plane. It
looks like a square white outline with smaller green squares (or tabs) set in the corners and along the
center of each edge. Dragging a cornertab scales the dragger in 2D by scaling about the opposite corner.
Dragging an edgetab performs 1D scaling about the opposite edge. The rest of the dragger is invisible
but pickable; selecting it initiates translation within the plane.
The dragger tries to keep the small tabs a constant size in screen space. Every time a drag begins or
ends, the size is recalculated based on the viewing and modeling matrix.
When dragging the translator part, press the <Shift> key and you can constrain motion to either the local
xaxis or the yaxis. The direction is determined by your initial mouse gesture after pressing the key.
Releasing the key removes the constraint.
When the translator part drags, the dragger updates its translation field. The various scaling parts
cause changes to both the scaleFactor and translation field, since scaling about a point other than the
center adds translation to the center of the dragger. If you set the field, the dragger will move
accordingly. You can also connect fields of other nodes or engines from this one to make them follow the
dragger's motion.
You can not change the shape used to draw the tabs. This part is kept privately and may not be changed;
the coordinates for the tabs are edited during adjustScaleTabSize().
The SoTabPlaneDragger class does contain three other parts you can change: tabPlaneTranslator,
tabPlaneScaleTabMaterial and tabPlaneScaleTabHints.
Each of these is set by default from a resource described in the Dragger Resources section of the online
reference page for this class. You can change the parts in any instance of this dragger using setPart().
You can make your program use different default resources for the parts by copying the file
/usr/share/data/draggerDefaults/tabPlaneDragger.iv into your own directory, editing the file, and then
setting the environment variable SO_DRAGGER_DIR to be a path to that directory.
Dragger Resources
.in 0n+.5i
Resource: tabPlaneTranslator
.in 0n+.5i
Part: translator
Appearance: Outline of a Square. The region within it is pickable
Description: Begins translation within the plane
.in 0n+.5i
Resource: tabPlaneScaleTabMaterial
.in 0n+.5i
Part: scaleTabMaterial
Appearance: Green - half diffuse, half emissive.
Description: Used as material for scaling tabs.
.in 0n+.5i
Resource: tabPlaneScaleTabHints
.in 0n+.5i
Part: scaleTabHints
Appearance: shapeHints node:COUNTERCLOCKWISE/SOLID/CONVEX
Description: Property for the tab nodes.
Fields
SoSFVec3fscaleFactor
Scale factor affecting the dragger.
SoSFVec3ftranslation
Position of the dragger.
File Format/Defaults
TabPlaneDragger{renderCachingAUTOboundingBoxCachingAUTOrenderCullingAUTOpickCullingAUTOisActiveFALSEtranslation000scaleFactor111callbackListNULLtranslator<tabPlaneTranslatorresource>scaleTabMaterial<tabPlaneScaleTabMaterialresource>scaleTabHints<tabPlaneScaleTabHintsresource>}Inherits From
SoBase > SoFieldContainer > SoNode > SoBaseKit > SoInteractionKit > SoDragger > SoTabPlaneDragger
Methods
SoTabPlaneDragger()
Constructor.
voidadjustScaleTabSize()
Cause the scale tab sizes to be re-adjusted so that they remain a near constant screen space size.
This happens automatically upon dragger finish. Call this to adjust the scale tab sizes at other
times, for instance after the camera has changed in a viewer finish callback.
staticconstSoNodekitCatalog*getClassNodekitCatalog()const
Returns an SoNodekitCatalog for this class
staticSoTypegetClassTypeId()
Returns type identifier for this class.
Name
SoTabPlaneDragger — object you can translate or scale within a plane by dragging with the mouse
See Also
SoInteractionKit,SoDragger,SoCenterballDragger,SoDirectionalLightDragger,SoDragPointDragger,SoHandleBoxDragger,SoJackDragger,SoPointLightDragger,SoRotateCylindricalDragger,SoRotateDiscDragger,SoRotateSphericalDragger,SoScale1Dragger,SoScale2Dragger,SoScale2UniformDragger,SoScaleUniformDragger,SoSpotLightDragger,SoTabBoxDragger,SoTrackballDragger,SoTransformBoxDragger,SoTransformerDragger,SoTranslate1Dragger,SoTranslate2DraggerSoTabPlaneDragger(3IV)()
Synopsis
#include<Inventor/draggers/SoTabPlaneDragger.h>
Fields from class SoTabPlaneDragger:
SoSFVec3fscaleFactorSoSFVec3ftranslation
Fields from class SoDragger:
SoSFBoolisActive
Fields from class SoInteractionKit:
SoSFEnumrenderCachingSoSFEnumboundingBoxCachingSoSFEnumrenderCullingSoSFEnumpickCulling
Parts from class SoBaseKit:
(SoNodeKitListPart)callbackList
Methods from class SoTabPlaneDragger:
SoTabPlaneDragger()voidadjustScaleTabSize()staticconstSoNodekitCatalog*getClassNodekitCatalog()conststaticSoTypegetClassTypeId()
Methods from class SoDragger:
voidaddStartCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidremoveStartCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidaddMotionCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidremoveMotionCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidaddFinishCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidremoveFinishCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidaddValueChangedCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)voidremoveValueChangedCallback(SoDraggerCB*f,void*userData=NULL)SbBoolenableValueChangedCallbacks()voidsetMinGesture(intpixels)intgetMinGesture()conststaticvoidsetMinScale(floatnewMinScale)staticfloatgetMinScale()
Methods from class SoInteractionKit:
virtualSbBoolsetPartAsPath(constSbName&partName,SoPath*surrogatePath)
Methods from class SoBaseKit:
virtualconstSoNodekitCatalog*getNodekitCatalog()constvirtualSoNode*getPart(constSbName&partName,SbBoolmakeIfNeeded)SbStringgetPartString(constSoBase*part)virtualSoNodeKitPath*createPathToPart(constSbName&partName,SbBoolmakeIfNeeded,constSoPath*pathToExtend=NULL)virtualSbBoolsetPart(constSbName&partName,SoNode*newPart)SbBoolset(char*partName,char*parameters)SbBoolset(char*nameValuePairs)staticSbBoolisSearchingChildren()staticvoidsetSearchingChildren(SbBoolnewVal)
Methods from class SoNode:
voidsetOverride(SbBoolstate)SbBoolisOverride()constSoNode*copy(SbBoolcopyConnections=FALSE)constvirtualSbBoolaffectsState()conststaticSoNode*getByName(constSbName&name)staticintgetByName(constSbName&name,SoNodeList&list)
Methods from class SoFieldContainer:
voidsetToDefaults()SbBoolhasDefaultValues()constSbBoolfieldsAreEqual(constSoFieldContainer*fc)constvoidcopyFieldValues(constSoFieldContainer*fc,SbBoolcopyConnections=FALSE)voidget(SbString&fieldDataString)virtualintgetFields(SoFieldList&resultList)constvirtualSoField*getField(constSbName&fieldName)constSbBoolgetFieldName(constSoField*field,SbName&fieldName)constSbBoolisNotifyEnabled()constSbBoolenableNotify(SbBoolflag)
Methods from class SoBase:
voidref()voidunref()constvoidunrefNoDelete()constvoidtouch()virtualSoTypegetTypeId()constSbBoolisOfType(SoTypetype)constvirtualvoidsetName(constSbName&name)virtualSbNamegetName()const
Macros from class SoBaseKit:
SO_GET_PART(kit,partName,partClass)SO_CHECK_PART(kit,partName,partClass)