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SceneInteractor Class
Tool class for easily building a basic OpenInventor application without using existing viewer classes.

The SceneInteractor is a simple extension of the SoSeparator node that allows handling of Open Inventor events. This class should be overridden as it provides only empty event handlers.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Namespace: OIV.Inventor.ViewerComponents.Nodes
Assembly: OIV.Inventor.ViewerComponents (in OIV.Inventor.ViewerComponents.dll) Version: 2024.1.0.0.Release.6781d65b4b1b675fd6182974c1ee403ab39e8367
Syntax
public class SceneInteractor : SoSeparator

The SceneInteractor type exposes the following members.

Constructors
  NameDescription
Public methodSceneInteractor
Default constructor.
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Methods
  NameDescription
Public methodAddChild

Adds a child as last one in group.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodAdjustClippingPlanes
Adjust near and far clipping planes to minimize clipping of objects in the scene. This adjustment, based on the bounding box of the scene, ensures that shapes will not be clipped and also that depth buffer precision is maximized. This method should be called before each render traversal.
Public methodAffectsState

Returns true if a node has an effect on the state during traversal.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodCallback
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodClearCacheList
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodCopy
Calls Copy(false).
(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodCopy(Boolean)

Creates and returns an exact copy of the node.

(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodCopyFieldValues(SoFieldContainer)
Calls CopyFieldValues(fc, false).
(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodCopyFieldValues(SoFieldContainer, Boolean)

Copies the contents of fc's fields into this object's fields.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodDispose
Releases all resources used by SoDisposable.
(Inherited from SoDisposable.)
Public methodDistribute
(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodDoAction
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodEnableNotify

Notification at this Field Container is enabled (if flag == true) or disabled (if flag == false).

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodEquals
Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodFieldsAreEqual

Returns true if this object's fields are exactly equal to fc's fields.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodFindChild

Finds index of given child within group.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodGet

Returns the values of the fields of this object in the Open Inventor ASCII file format in the given string.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetAllFields

Returns a list of fields, including the eventIn's and eventOut's.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetAlternateRep

This method is called by actions to allow the node to provide an "alternate representation" when appropriate (typically depending on the action type).

(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodGetBoundingBox
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGetChild

Returns pointer the child node with the given index.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodGetEventIn

Returns a the eventIn with the given name.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetEventOut

Returns the eventOut with the given name.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetField

Returns a the field of this object whose name is fieldName.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetFieldName

Returns the name of the given field in the fieldName argument.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetFields

Appends references to all of this object's fields to resultList, and returns the number of fields appended.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodGetHashCode
Overrides GetHashCode().
(Inherited from SoNetBase.)
Public methodGetMatrix
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGetName

Returns the name of an instance.

(Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodGetNumChildren

Returns number of children.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodGetPrimitiveCount
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGetRenderEngineMode
This override is mandatory to specify the custom node's render engine mode. If not overridden, a warning message will be displayed.
(Overrides SoNodeGetRenderEngineMode.)
Public methodGetRenderUnitID
(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodGetStringName (Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGLRender
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGLRenderBelowPath
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGLRenderInPath
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGLRenderOffPath
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodGrabEventsCleanup
(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodGrabEventsSetup
(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodHandleEvent
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodHasDefaultValues

Returns true if all of the object's fields have their default values.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodInsertChild

Adds a child so that it becomes the one with the given index.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodIsBoundingBoxIgnoring

Used by BoundingBoxAction to known if bounding box computation should be ignored or not.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodIsNotifyEnabled

Notification is the process of telling interested objects that this object has changed.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodIsOverride

Returns the state of the override flag.

(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodIsSynchronizable

Gets the ScaleViz synchronizable state of this object.

(Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodPick
(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodRayPick
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodRemoveAllChildren

Removes all children from group.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodRemoveChild(Int32)

Removes child with given index from group.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodRemoveChild(SoNode)

Removes first instance of given child from group.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodReplaceChild(Int32, SoNode)

Replaces child with given index with new child.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodReplaceChild(SoNode, SoNode)

Replaces first instance of given child with new child.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public methodSearch
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public methodSet

Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodSetName (Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodSetOverride

Turns the override flag on or off.

(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodSetSynchronizable

Sets this to be a ScaleViz synchronizable object.

(Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodSetToDefaults

Sets all fields in this object to their default values.

(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
Public methodToString
Converts this SoBase structure to a human readable string.
(Inherited from SoBase.)
Public methodTouch

Marks an instance as modified, simulating a change to it.

(Inherited from SoNode.)
Public methodViewAll
Set the camera to view all the scene.
Public methodViewAxis
Moves the camera to be aligned with the given direction vector while keeping the "up" direction of the camera parallel to the specified up vector.
Public methodWrite
(Inherited from SoGroup.)
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Properties
  NameDescription
Public propertyboundingBoxCaching
(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyboundingBoxIgnoring

Whether to ignore this node during bounding box traversal.

(Inherited from SoGroup.)
Public propertyCamera
Gets the current camera.
Public propertyCameraInteractor
Gets the current camera interactor.
Public propertyCameraMode
Gets/sets the camera mode.
Public propertyfastEditing

Specifies the fast edit mode of the separator node.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyHeadlightEnabled
Enables/Disables the headlight.
Public propertyIsDisposable
ISafeDisposable interface implementation.
(Inherited from SoDisposable.)
Public propertypickCulling

Whether to cull during picking traversal.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyrenderCaching Obsolete.

Whether to cache during rendering traversal.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyrenderCulling

Whether to cull during rendering traversal.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyrenderUnitId

Used during the ScaleViz depth compositing process, this field specifies which render unit (OIRU) will render the sub scene graph below this separator.

(Inherited from SoSeparator.)
Public propertyUserData
Gets or sets the user data to be contained by the field container.
(Inherited from SoFieldContainer.)
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Remarks

This node is intended to be used as the root of a scene graph. The SceneInteractor is a custom SoSeparator whose children are: - an SoEventCallback node that handles keyboard, mouse and touch events - a camera (switch between perspective and orthographic camera). - a headlight. - the application's scene graph, which should be the last child.

The SceneInteractor uses an instance of SoCameraInteractor in order to manipulate the camera in response to OpenInventor events.

Class diagram of the SceneInteractor showing the relationship between the SoEventCallback, the SoCamera, the SoDirectionalLight (used as headlight) and the SoCameraInteractor. Detail of the scene graph rooted by a SceneExaminer:

Remarks
Caution note Caution
A basic version of SceneInteractor is a supported part of the OpenInventor API, but the prebuilt library is located in the examples folder, not in the usual folder.
Caution note Caution
The basic version of SceneInteractor is also provided as source code in the source folder to allow applications to customize and build their own interactive tool class. See $OIVNETHOME/source/OIV.Inventor.Viewercomponents/Nodes/.
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