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SoGLPointSizeElement Class Reference
[Elements (mostly for internal use)]

The SoGLPointSizeElement class changes the pointsize setting of the OpenGL render state.Requests from the scenegraph to change the pointsize when rendering point primitives will be made through this element, which forwards it to the appropriate native OpenGL call. More...

#include <Inventor/elements/SoGLPointSizeElement.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoGLPointSizeElement:
SoPointSizeElement SoFloatElement SoElement

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

virtual void init (SoState *state)
virtual void push (SoState *state)
virtual void pop (SoState *state, const SoElement *prevTopElement)

Static Public Member Functions

static void initClass (void)

Protected Member Functions

virtual ~SoGLPointSizeElement ()
virtual void setElt (float size)

Detailed Description

The SoGLPointSizeElement class changes the pointsize setting of the OpenGL render state.

Requests from the scenegraph to change the pointsize when rendering point primitives will be made through this element, which forwards it to the appropriate native OpenGL call.

The Coin library does not place any bounds on the values of the pointsize, but be aware that the range and granularity of what is valid pointsizes depends on the underlying OpenGL implementation. Application programmers using point primitives (typically through the SoPointSet node) should heed these boundary values. They can be acquired by running the following code from within a valid OpenGL context:

    GLfloat bounds[2];
    glGetFloatv(GL_POINT_SIZE_RANGE, bounds);
    GLfloat granularity[1];
    glGetFloatv(GL_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY, granularity);

Another, perhaps more convenient, way of acquiring the OpenGL implementation limits with regard to pointsizes is to use the So*GLWidgetgetPointSizeLimits() method in the GUI "glue" interface library you are using (SoQt, SoXt, SoGtk, SoWin, ...).


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoGLPointSizeElement::~SoGLPointSizeElement ( void   )  [protected, virtual]

The destructor.


Member Function Documentation

void SoGLPointSizeElement::initClass ( void   )  [static]

Initialize relevant common data for all instances, like the type system.

Reimplemented from SoPointSizeElement.

void SoGLPointSizeElement::init ( SoState state  )  [virtual]

This function initializes the element type in the given SoState. It is called for the first element of each enabled element type in SoState objects.

Reimplemented from SoPointSizeElement.

References SoPointSizeElement::init().

void SoGLPointSizeElement::push ( SoState state  )  [virtual]

This method is called every time a new element is required in one of the stacks. This happens when a writable element is requested, using SoState::getElement() or indirectly SoElement::getElement(), and the depth of the current element is less than the state depth.

Override this method if your element needs to copy data from the previous top of stack. The push() method is called on the new element, and the previous element can be found using SoElement::getNextInStack().

Reimplemented from SoElement.

References SoElement::capture(), SoFloatElement::data, and SoElement::getNextInStack().

void SoGLPointSizeElement::setElt ( float  val  )  [protected, virtual]

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.

Reimplemented from SoFloatElement.

References SoFloatElement::data.


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