Rob, It is a "copy" in some sense. It is not the actual data.. rather, a copy placed in the container that you hand to the method. I see where the confusion enters though.
It os obviously not a copy in the sense that a new object was allocated expressly to transmit the data. Make sense? Ian On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Rob Nugent wrote: > Eric, > > I presume it's because it's documented as returning a *copy* of the Transform3D. > > If it created a copy and returned that, it'd lead to lots of unwanted garbage if > called repeatedly. > > Rob > > Sandegren, Eric S. wrote: > > This may seem like a silly question but - why does the getTransform method > > of TransformGroup take a parameter and set it's reference, rather than > > returning a reference to the Transform3D? All the other "get" methods I've > > ever seen return the object rather than having you pass it in and then the > > method fill it. > > > > ?? > > > > Regards, > > > > Eric Sandegren > > > > =========================================================================== > > 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". > > -- > > > Rob Nugent > Sun Microsystems, Southampton, UK > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: +44 (0) 1489 585503 > Fax: +44 (0) 1489 881363 > > =========================================================================== > 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".
