Detailed Description

See also:: Class NURBSSurface, Class NURBSControlVertex, Class NURBSPoint, Class NURBSCurve, Class NURBSSet, NURBSObject Types.

Description:: This class is available in release 2.0 and later only.

This is the base class for many of the other classes in the NURBS API. It provides a common set of methods that each of them use. It has methods to get and set the name of the item, and methods to deal with error processing. To determine the type of object the derived class is use the method GetType().

All methods of this class are implemented by the system.

Data Members:: protected:

MCHAR mName[NURBS_NAME_SIZE];

The name of the NURBS object. The maximum length of this name including the terminating NULL is specified using the following #define: #define NURBS_NAME_SIZE 80

NURBSType mType;

The type of NURBS object this is. See NURBSObject Types.

NURBSKind mKind;

The kind of NURBS object this is. See NURBSObject Kinds.

NURBSId mId;

This is the ID of the NURBS object used to specify the parent object in many of the dependent point, curves and surface classes. This ID is not persistant across sessions and should not be saved to a file. A NURBSId is defined as follows: typedef unsigned long NURBSId;

Object *mpObject;

When an object is instantiated in the 3ds Max scene this pointer is filled in. For example, if you use the function CreateNURBSObject() and pass a NURBSSet, this data member is filled in to point to the actual editable NURBS object in 3ds Max that this NURBSObject is a part of.

NURBSSet* mpNSet;

When an object is instantiated in the 3ds Max scene this pointer is filled in. This points to the NURBSSet this object is a contained within.

BOOL mSelected;

TRUE if the object is selected; otherwise FALSE.
protected:

#include <surf_api.h>

Inheritance diagram for NURBSObject:

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Public Member Functions
DllExport	NURBSObject (void)
virtual DllExport	~NURBSObject (void)
DllExport NURBSObject &	operator= (const NURBSObject &pt)
DllExport void	SetName (MCHAR *name)
DllExport MCHAR *	GetName (void)
DllExport NURBSType	GetType ()
DllExport NURBSKind	GetKind ()
DllExport NURBSId	GetId ()
DllExport void	SetId (NURBSId id)
DllExport void	SetNSet (NURBSSet *nset)
DllExport void	SetObject (Object *object)
DllExport Object *	GetMAXObject ()
DllExport NURBSSet *	GetNSet ()
DllExport int	GetIndex ()
DllExport BOOL	IsSelected ()
DllExport void	SetSelected (BOOL set)
Protected Member Functions
DllExport void	Clean (NURBSIdTab ids)
Protected Attributes
MCHAR	mName [NURBS_NAME_SIZE]
NURBSType	mType
NURBSKind	mKind
NURBSId	mId
Object *	mpObject
NURBSSet *	mpNSet
BOOL	mSelected
Friends
class	NURBSSet

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

DllExport NURBSObject ( void )

Remarks:: Constructor. The data members are initialized as follows:

mName[0] = '/0';

mId = 0;

mpObject = NULL;

mpNSet = NULL;

mSelected = FALSE;

virtual DllExport ~NURBSObject ( void ) [virtual]

DllExport void Clean ( NURBSIdTab ids ) [protected]

Remarks:: Sets the mId to 0 and mpObject pointer to NULL. This effectively breaks the relation between this NURBSObject and a NURBSSet.