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SoField Methods

The SoField type exposes the following members.

Methods
  NameDescription
Public methodAppendConnection(SoEngineOutput)

Appends this field to the list of connections from another engineOutput.

Public methodAppendConnection(SoField)

Appends this field to the list of connections from another field.

Public methodConnectFrom(SoEngineOutput)

Connects this field from an engine output.

Public methodConnectFrom(SoField)

Connects this field to another field.

Public methodDisconnect

Disconnect the field from whatever it was connected to.

Public methodDisconnect(SoEngineOutput)

Disconnect the field from the requested engineOutput.

Public methodDisconnect(SoField)

Disconnect the field from the requested field.

Public methodEnableConnection

Field connections may be enabled and disabled.

Public methodEquals
(Overrides ObjectEquals(Object).)
Public methodGet

Returns the value of the field in the Open Inventor file format, even if the field has its default value.

Public methodGetConnectedEngine

Returns true if this field is being written into by an engine, and returns the engine output it is connected to in engineOutput.

Public methodGetConnectedField

Returns true if this field is being written into by another field, and returns the field it is connected to in writingField.

Public methodGetConnections

Returns a list of the connections to this field.

Public methodGetContainer

Returns the object that contains this field.

Public methodGetForwardConnections

Adds references to all of the fields that this field is writing into (either fields in nodes, global fields or engine inputs) to the given field list, and returns the number of forward connections.

Public methodGetHashCode
Overrides GetHashCode().
(Inherited from SoNetBase.)
Public methodGetNumConnections

Returns the number of connections to this field.

Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetValueSize

Gets the size of the value.

Public methodIsConnected

Returns true if the field is connected to anything.

Public methodIsConnectedFromEngine

Returns true if the field is connected to an engine's output.

Public methodIsConnectedFromField

Returns true if the field is connected to another field.

Public methodIsConnectedFromVRMLInterp

Returns true if the field is connected to a VRML interpOutput.

Public methodIsConnectionEnabled

Returns false if connections to this field are disabled.

Public methodIsDefault

Gets the state of default flag of the field.

Public methodIsIgnored

Gets the ignore flag for this field.

Public methodSet

Sets the field to the given value, which is an ASCII string in the Open Inventor file format.

Public methodSetIgnored

Sets the ignore flag for this field.

Public methodToString
Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodTouch

Simulates a change to the field, causing attached sensors to fire, connected fields and engines to be marked as needing evaluation, and so forth.

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