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Newbie questions: selecting objects, changing viewpoints, and remapping user input

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  • Subject: Newbie questions: selecting objects, changing viewpoints, and remapping user input
  • From: Harry Hochheiser <hsh@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:38:11 -0500
As a very new (< 1 week) VisAD user, I've got a few questions that I'm 
having trouble finding answers to:
1) Using PickManipulationRendererJ3D, I'd like to be able to have some 
way of telling what I've picked. Currently, I'm doing this by having a 
separate field and DataReferenceImpl for each thing that I might want 
to pick, and passing the Java object in to an appropriately designed 
subclass of CellImpl. Since there's a separate CellImpl for each 
object, I can then tell which object i've clicked on.
This works, but seems a bit clunky. Is there a cleaner way to do it?

2) Having clicked on something, I'd like to remap its appearance, which is currently determined by a reference to a ConstantMap which defines colors and point sizes. What's the best way to go about redefining the constant map?
3) How would I go about changing the initial view (zoom and camera 
position) of a DisplayImplJ3D?
4) I'd like to revise the rotation behavior for the DisplayImpleJ3D. 
Specifically, I'd like to support (at the user's discretion) rotation 
that is constrained along one axis at a time. What would be the best 
way to do this?
Any feedback would be appreciated. I realize that some of these issues 
have been discussed on this list at various times, but I was not able 
to find answers that seemed to fit these questions.
thanks,

Harry


Harry Hochheiser, Ph.D.
Image Informatics and Computational Biology Unit
Laboratory of Genetics
NIH, National Institute on Aging
333 Cassell Drive
Suite 3000
Baltimore MD 21224
410 558 8046


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