manips(3)

NAME
manips - Manipulator Classes

  Classes
class SoCenterballManip
The SoCenterballManip wraps an SoCenterballDragger for convenience.

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class SoClipPlaneManip
The SoClipPlaneManip class is used to manipulate clip planes.

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class SoDirectionalLightManip
The SoDirectionalLightManip class is used to manipulate SoDirectionalLight nodes.

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class SoHandleBoxManip
The SoHandleBoxManip class wraps an SoHandleBoxDragger for manipulating a transformation.

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class SoJackManip
The SoJackManip wraps an SoJackDragger for convenience.

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class SoPointLightManip
The SoPointLightManip class is used to manipulate point light nodes.

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class SoSpotLightManip
The SoSpotLightManip class is used to manipulate spot light nodes.

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class SoTabBoxManip
The SoTabBoxManip class wraps an SoTabBoxDragger.

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class SoTrackballManip
The SoTrackballManip wraps an SoTrackballDragger for convenience.

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class SoTransformBoxManip
The SoTransformBoxManip wraps an SoTransformBoxDragger for convenience.

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class SoTransformManip
The SoTransformManip class is used to manipulate transformations.

A manipulator is used by replacing the node you want to edit in the graph with the manipulator. Draggers are used to to manipulate the node. When manipulation is finished, the node is put back into the graph, replacing the manipulator. "
class SoTransformerManip
The SoTransformerManip wraps an SoTransformerDragger for convenience.

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Detailed Description

Manipulators are objects you can swap back and forth into a scene graph at locations where you have an SoTransform node. They take the place of the SoTransform, continue to act like the SoTransform, but in addition give the user a 3D user interface, using draggers, for controlling the transform. When the user is done manipulating, the manipulator can swap itself back out, replacing itself with an SoTransform that represent the new transform value.

Manipulators is one of the concepts that really made Open Inventor stand out against the alternatives when it came out.

See also:
    Dragger Classes

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