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NAME

       SoNodeEngine -

       SoNodeEngine is the base class for Coin node engines.

       Node engines have the same functionality as normal engines, except that
       they inherit SoNode, which makes it possible to insert node engines in
       the scene graph.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Inventor/engines/SoNodeEngine.h>

       Inherits SoNode.

       Inherited by SoVRMLInterpolator, and SoVRMLTimeSensor.

   Public Member Functions
       void evaluateWrapper (void)
       virtual int getOutputs (SoEngineOutputList &l) const
       SoEngineOutput * getOutput (const SbName &outputname) const
       SbBool getOutputName (const SoEngineOutput *output, SbName &outputname)
           const
       virtual const SoEngineOutputData * getOutputData (void) const =0
       SbBool isNotifying (void) const
       virtual void notify (SoNotList *nl)
       virtual void writeInstance (SoOutput *out)

   Static Public Member Functions
       static void initClass (void)
       static SoType getClassTypeId (void)

   Protected Member Functions
       SoNodeEngine (void)
       virtual ~SoNodeEngine (void)
       virtual void evaluate (void)=0
       virtual SbBool readInstance (SoInput *in, unsigned short flags)
       virtual void inputChanged (SoField *which)
       void writeOutputTypes (SoOutput *out)

   Static Protected Member Functions
       static const SoFieldData ** getFieldDataPtr (void)
       static const SoEngineOutputData ** getOutputDataPtr (void)

Detailed Description

       SoNodeEngine is the base class for Coin node engines.

       Node engines have the same functionality as normal engines, except that
       they inherit SoNode, which makes it possible to insert node engines in
       the scene graph.

       The main rationale for this class is to simplify the implementation of
       VRML interpolator nodes, which are in a sense engines embedded in the
       shape of ordinary nodes.

       This abstract superclass will likely be of no interest to the Coin
       application programmer, and you can safely ignore it.

       Be aware that this class is an extension for Coin, and it is not
       available in the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

   SoNodeEngine::SoNodeEngine (void) [protected] Default constructor.
   SoNodeEngine::~SoNodeEngine (void) [protected, virtual] Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

   void SoNodeEngine::initClass (void) [static] Sets up initialization for
       data common to all instances of this class, like submitting necessary
       information to the Coin type system.
       Reimplemented from SoNode.

       Reimplemented in SoVRMLColorInterpolator, SoVRMLCoordinateInterpolator,
       SoVRMLInterpolator, SoVRMLNormalInterpolator,
       SoVRMLOrientationInterpolator, SoVRMLPositionInterpolator,
       SoVRMLScalarInterpolator, and SoVRMLTimeSensor.

   SoType SoNodeEngine::getClassTypeId (void) [static] This static method
       returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.
       Reimplemented from SoNode.

   void SoNodeEngine::evaluateWrapper (void) Triggers an engine evaluation.
   int SoNodeEngine::getOutputs (SoEngineOutputList & l) const [virtual] Adds
       all outputs to list. Returns the number of outputs added to the list.
   SoEngineOutput * SoNodeEngine::getOutput (const SbName & outputname) const
       Returns the output with name outputname, or NULL if no such output
       exists.
   SbBool SoNodeEngine::getOutputName (const SoEngineOutput * output, SbName &
       outputname) const Sets to the name of output. Returns FALSE if no such
       output is contained within the engine instance.
   const SoEngineOutputData * SoNodeEngine::getOutputData (void) const [pure
       virtual] This API member is considered internal to the library, as it
       is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
       Implemented in SoVRMLColorInterpolator.

   SbBool SoNodeEngine::isNotifying (void) const Returns whether were in a
       notification process. This is needed to avoid double notification when
       an engine enables outputs during inputChanged().
   void SoNodeEngine::notify (SoNotList * l) [virtual] Notifies all auditors
       for this instance when changes are made.
       Reimplemented from SoNode.

       Reimplemented in SoVRMLTimeSensor.

   void SoNodeEngine::writeInstance (SoOutput * out) [virtual] Writes all the
       fields contained in this instance to the output stream within out.
       This method is solely called from the write methods of fields.

       Either from SoField if the write is done because of a field-to-field
       connection, or from one of the fields which may actually write
       SoFieldContainer instances, i.e. SoSFNode, SoMFNode, SoSFEngine,
       SoMFEngine, SoSFPath and SoMFPath.

       This method, in addition to the ordinary write() method of SoNode,
       needs to be present since the fields don’t have a write action instance
       in their writeValue() method, and writeInstance() will create a new
       SoWriteAction and call continueToApply() on it.

       Reimplemented from SoNode.

   void SoNodeEngine::evaluate (void) [protected, pure virtual] This API
       member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be
       of interest to the application programmer.
   SbBool SoNodeEngine::readInstance (SoInput * in, unsigned short flags)
       [protected, virtual] This method is mainly intended for internal use
       during file import operations.
       It reads a definition of an instance from the input stream in. The
       input stream state points to the start of a serialized / persistant
       representation of an instance of this class type.

       TRUE or FALSE is returned, depending on if the instantiation and
       configuration of the new object of this class type went ok or not. The
       import process should be robust and handle corrupted input streams by
       returning FALSE.

       flags is used internally during binary import when reading user
       extension nodes, group nodes or engines.

       Reimplemented from SoNode.

   const SoFieldData ** SoNodeEngine::getFieldDataPtr (void) [static,
       protected] Returns the SoFieldData class which holds information about
       inputs in this engine.
       Reimplemented from SoNode.

   const SoEngineOutputData ** SoNodeEngine::getOutputDataPtr (void) [static,
       protected] Returns the SoEngineOutputData class which holds information
       about the outputs in this engine.
       Reimplemented in SoVRMLColorInterpolator.

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