Hello forum,

I have read some nodes attributes from the H3DNodeDatabase.

I believe that every node contains at least two fields that define the node . One is the DEF and the other is DESCRIPTION.

DEF is used so that later somewhere in the scene it can be referenced through USE.


TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE FOLLOWING NODE:

TouchSensor . I read its field contents from the database and the fields are as follows:


Node name: "TouchSensor"
Size of the field contents: 9
"TouchSensor" is not Abstract
Field Name: "enabled" and Field type: "SFBool"
Field Name: "description" and Field type: "SFString"
Field Name: "isActive" and Field type: "SFBool"
Field Name: "hitPoint_changed" and Field type: "SFVec3f"
Field Name: "hitNormal_changed" and Field type: "SFVec3f"
Field Name: "touchTime" and Field type: "SFTime"
Field Name: "isOver" and Field type: "SFBool"
Field Name: "metadata" and Field type: "SFNode"
Field Name: "hitTexCoord_changed" and Field type: "SFVec2f"


Which of the above fields contanis what is defines after DEF=''?

Regards
Sajjad

To get the DEF of a node you need the a pointer to an instance of the node. If I am not wrong you can not get a list of DEF-names directly from the database. If you created the scene using C++ createX3D(Node)From* functions then you can supply a DEFNodes map which, when the function returns, will contain all DEF-names in the scene.