Re: Even more on View Hints

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 08:15 PM, James W. Walker wrote:

> Roger Holmes <rog...@mi...> wrote:
>
>> As we never actually create any objects of class 'Light', only
>> ambient, directional, spot and point lights,
>> would it be OK to redefine kQ3ShapeTypeLight to be something like
>> 'lghT' with a capital T or 'Lght' ?
>
> I have some code that uses Q3Group_GetFirstPositionOfType and 
> Q3Group_GetNextPositionOfType with kQ3ShapeTypeLight, and that will 
> break if you redefine kQ3ShapeTypeLight.

Unless you recompiled with the revised headers but I accept that is not 
always convenient.

>
> Here's a possibility:  In e3fformat_3dmf_bin_readobject, add a special 
> case, that checks whether the object type is 'lght' and changes it to 
> something else like 'lghd'.

Yes that would work, not elegant but then Apple using the same ID for 
two different things is not elegant in the first place.

Thanks,

Roger.

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