Hi Ahmed:
Thank you very much for your generous help!
Cheers,
Mona
> You can do No.1 or No.3
>
> No.2 could work but is not a good idea speciall if there are other objects
behind it. then chaning the color to background color wont help
>
> No.3 will work if u have the object(s) in your branch group u have to Detach
the BranchGroup and remove the objects then Attach the branchgroup back
>
> Ahmed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mona Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [JAVA3D] making an object(s) "disappear"
>
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm sure this must be documented somewhere but I have not been able to
> find the answer, especially with j3d.org down ...
>
> I have several 3d objects in my canvas and I want to allow the user to
> turn off display of any object(s) s/he chooses. I can see several ways of
doing
> this ...
>
> 1. Make each object a BranchGroup and detach it when requested by the
> user
> 2. Change the color or the object to the background color so the user
> will no longer "see" it
> 3. "Detach" the object from the BranchGroup.
>
> Does anyone have any input on what is the proper or best method? If
#3
> is the answer, could someone point me to some docs on how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mona
>
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