I've been using 3D user interfaces for a while now. Some of them are
buttons that change color when pressed (by changing the diffuse color),
others I translate, some even have animations. But my project is being
funded by a private client, so I can't just give out a URL.
It's not very hard anyway... I do a "setUserData" on the Shape3D to be
the button. If the shape is selected, my Button3D code gets a callback
(either mouse-click, mouse-released, or mouse-dragged) from my selection
behavior code (which wakes up on AWT events). If it is a mouse-click, I
translate a TransformGroup above the button to make the "press" occur.
When I get the mouse-released, it return the button to the original
translation and call any Button3DListeners that have been attached.
-Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Wayne Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing components onto a J3D
> surf ace?
>
>
> I would like to see a 3D user interface. If you ever get it
> to work, please
> send me a link to the applet.
>
> Kyle Wayne Kelly
> Computer Science Student
> University of New Orleans
> http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Lee Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing components
> onto a J3D surf
> ace?
>
>
> > I think it is doable, but you have to get in there and do some work.
> > For example, you can create an offscreen graphics for a
> buffered image
> > to draw upon. Thus, you should be able to draw the
> components onto the
> > offscreen graphic and use it to texture. When a user
> clicks on the 3D
> > object, use the picking routines to figure out where on the
> object the
> > pick occurred, convert that to the coordinates of the
> offscreen graphic,
> > and then send an event to the correct component. After
> that, redraw the
> > scene onto the offscreen graphic and reapply the texture.
> >
> > I do this sort of thing with text displays. I would think
> it would be
> > not too far fetched to tell a JButton that it's parent is something
> > derived from a BufferedImage.
> >
> > I personally just model 3D buttons, sliders, and text
> displays to make
> > 3D GUIs, complete with the ability to attach listeners.
> >
> > -Lee
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Yazel, David J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:02 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing
> components onto a J3D
> > > surf ace?
> > >
> > >
> > > I have heard this request before, but I can't even picture
> > > what this means.
> > > Do you mean to put a button or some other Swing component
> > > actually in the 3d
> > > scene? or do you mean you are placing the component in
> the same Swing
> > > container, with the canvas3d underneath the component?
> > >
> > > Because you can do neither of these things to my
> knowledge. Swing is
> > > lightweight and java3d is heavyweight. The closest I have
> > > come is to put
> > > swing components in JWindow's and float them above the
> > > canvas. You can, of
> > > course, build swing apps where the swing controls to the
> > > left, right, above
> > > or below the canvas and that will work. For some things I
> > > find I have to
> > > trap the AWT events in the canvas3d and send them back to the
> > > top of my
> > > Swing hierarchy to be processed properly (i.e. keystroke events).
> > >
> > > Dave Yazel
> > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From: Stefan Bühlmann[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Reply To: Discussion list for Java 3D API
> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:41 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing components
> > > onto a J3D
> > > > surface?
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > does anyone know a simple way, to project Swing components
> > > onto the =
> > > > surface of a J3D object, such that the mouse is
> correctly passed =
> > > > through? E.g. Clicking the mouse clicks on the swing buttons.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help, Stefan
> > > >
> > > >
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