[JAVA3D] Picking and getAppearance stuff

[Mark Venables]

hi all,   I've been feeling really pleased with myself, because I've managed to get my little application to pick Shape3D's with a mouse click. When I display the properties of the object I've picked, all is well until I try to do a getAppearance() on it.   Of course, I get a capability not set exception. I tried setting the ALLOW_APPEARANCE_READ of the objects I want to pick. Then I tried the ALLOW_CHILD_READ for the objects' TransformGroup, then the same for the BranchGroup and then for the BranchGroup above that.   Still no joy. The questions are a) Am I setting the correct capability and b) If I AM setting the correct capability, how far up the scene graph do I need to go with it???   Many thanks, Mark V