We have talked about adding an indirection table to the OrderedGroup
node to do this very thing. Unfortunately, that doesn't help you
right now. :^(
Doug Twilleager
Sun Microsystems
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>Yes, I'm still working on this... ;)
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>I have it working, but it's a bit slow. My first problem was my crude
>sorting algorithm. I can get around that.
>
>Now I think my problem is the slowness of moving BranchGroup nodes
>around in the OrderedGroup. I thought I had heard that detaching a
>BranchGroup and re-attaching was very expensive. I tried searching the
>archives but the listserv search engine is a bit slow for me right now.
>
>Since I can't just reorder the nodes in an OrderedGroup ( I really think
>this should be included in the API ), then I am *forced* into detach and
>reattaching BranchGroups, which means it is always going to be slow for
>me.
>
>Does anybody know of a way to get around this problem??
>
>I expect that Group has a "protected Node[] children" member. Is there
>really any behind-the-scenes reason why the members of this array can't
>be rearranged by just changing their order in the array using some new
>function?
>
>-Lee
>
>J. Lee Dixon
>SAIC - Celebration, FL
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