[Pyode-user] PyOde and XODE question

[Peter D. <pet...@ho...>]

Hello -

I've been trying to use PyOde and the Xode parser.  Without much success.

I've followed the PyOde tutorials, and I can get a simple simulation running 
fairly well.  Well, pygame crashes when I close the window, but the sim 
works just fine.

I've written some XODE files and the parser reads them.  I followed the 
parser example and dumped the object data and everything looks great.

The problem is that I don't know how to actually get the simulation to use 
the objects that the parser has read.

I tried creating a list of the objects using namedChild() and then creating 
and attaching them.  However, I get the suspicion from looking at the parser 
code that it has already done that.

I am also have trouble figuring out what to do with hinges.  I have not been 
able to figure out how to differentiate between a body and a hinge.  I've 
been trying to use isinstance() and hasattr() to test for various things but 
it seems really, well, non-optimal.

Has anyone else run into these issues?  Apologies if these are dumb 
questions, I do not have much experience in Python and I think that it might 
be showing a bit.  If someone has a code snippet that shows how to move an 
object/joint from the parser to ODE I would love to see it.

Regards,
Peter Doege