I am using the DirectX 1.3 FCS and the problem does not seem to have been fixed.
Sean > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Couch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] BranchGroups > > > Sean Sylvis wrote: > > What happens when BranchGroup.addChild(null) is called? > > > > I was hoping to use the 'null' as a placeholder that I > could replace later with a call to setChild(), but the > addition of 'null' to the BranchGroup child list seems > transient. Immediately after adding the right number of > 'null's to a BranchGroup (to get the number of children > correct for replacement later), the method numChildren() > reports the correct number of children. However, when > numChildren() is later (in another method) called on this > same BranchGroup, the value returned is zero. > > This is a regression bug in 1.3. I alerted the team to this issue back > in beta 1 and they promised they would fix it. It wasn't > fixed with beta > 2 and I haven't checked the FCS release to know whether it was fixed > there. Like you, I used to use this tactic quite frequently in my code > and 1.3 broke a lot of stuff. > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. > Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism > processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with > all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." > - Greg Bear, Slant > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, > send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > ==========================================================================To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
