SoDiffuseColorElement(3)

💖 SoDiffuseColorElement(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Coin manual, section 3 — that's the "library functions" girlies. Pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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🌈 NAME 🌈

SoDiffuseColorElement — and listen, the class itself is yet to be documented. That's the whole vibe. It's giving "mystery main character" 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Inventor/elements/SoDiffuseColorElement.h>

Inherits SoReplacedElement. Yeah, she's part of a whole family tree, we'll get to that 🫶

🎀 Public Member Functions

• virtual void init (SoState *state) — FIXME: write doc. bestie even the docs don't know 😭
• int32_t getNum (void) const — FIXME: write doc.
• const SbColor & get (const int index) const — FIXME: write doc.
• SbBool isPacked (void) const — no doc for this one either, she's just out here doing her thing
• SbBool hasPackedTransparency (void) const — same, undocumented icon 💅
• const SbColor * getColorArrayPtr () const — undocumented in the synopsis, but hold on, there IS real tea on this one below 👀
• const uint32_t * getPackedArrayPtr () const — same situation, scroll down queen

💜 Public Member Functions inherited from SoReplacedElement

• virtual SbBool matches (const SoElement *element) const
• virtual SoElement * copyMatchInfo () const
• SbUniqueId getNodeId () const
• virtual void print (FILE *file) const

🦋 Public Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• const SoType getTypeId (void) const
• int getStackIndex (void) const
• virtual void push (SoState *state)
• virtual void pop (SoState *state, const SoElement *prevTopElement)
• void setDepth (const int depth)
• int getDepth (void) const
• virtual ~SoElement ()

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🌸 Static Public Member Functions

• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void * createInstance (void)
• static void initClass (void)
• static void set (SoState *const state, SoNode *const node, const int32_t numcolors, const SbColor *const colors) — FIXME: write doc.
• static void set (SoState *const state, SoNode *const node, const int32_t numcolors, const uint32_t *const colors, const SbBool packedtransparency=FALSE) — FIXME: write doc. yes bestie there are two set overloads, don't mix them up 💅
• static const SoDiffuseColorElement * getInstance (SoState *state) — FIXME: write doc.

💜 Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoReplacedElement

• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void initClass (void)

🦋 Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• static void initClass (void)
• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void initElements (void)
• static int getNumStackIndices (void)
• static SoType getIdFromStackIndex (const int stackIndex)

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🧚 Protected Member Functions

• virtual ~SoDiffuseColorElement ()

💜 Protected Member Functions inherited from SoReplacedElement

• virtual ~SoReplacedElement ()

🦋 Protected Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• SoElement (void)
• void capture (SoState *const state) const
• virtual void captureThis (SoState *state) const
• void setTypeId (const SoType typeId)
• void setStackIndex (const int index)
• SoElement * getNextInStack (void) const
• SoElement * getNextFree (void) const

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👑 Additional Inherited Members

🌟 Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoReplacedElement

• static SoElement * getElement (SoState *const state, const int stackIndex, SoNode *const node)

🌟 Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• static SoElement * getElement (SoState *const state, const int stackIndex)
• static const SoElement * getConstElement (SoState *const state, const int stackIndex)
• static int createStackIndex (const SoType id)

🌈 Protected Attributes inherited from SoReplacedElement

• SbUniqueId nodeId

🌈 Protected Attributes inherited from SoElement

• SoType typeId
• int stackIndex
• int depth

⭐ Static Protected Attributes inherited from SoElement

• static int classStackIndex
• static SoTypeList * stackToType

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📖 Detailed Description 📖

The SoDiffuseColorElement class is yet to be documented.

FIXME: write doc.

no cap, that's literally all it says. the whole class is a mystery wrapped in a header file 🎀

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🎀 Constructor & Destructor Documentation 🎀

SoDiffuseColorElement::~SoDiffuseColorElement () [protected], [virtual]

Destructor. She's protected and virtual, so she goes out exactly how she lived — on her own terms 💅

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💖 Member Function Documentation 💖

SoType SoDiffuseColorElement::getClassTypeId (void ) [static]

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

This static method returns the class type.

int SoDiffuseColorElement::getClassStackIndex (void ) [static]

This static method returns the state stack index for the class.

void * SoDiffuseColorElement::createInstance (void ) [static]

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.

Creates a new instance of the class type corresponding to the SoType object.

void SoDiffuseColorElement::initClass (void ) [static]

Initialize relevant common data for all instances, like the type system.

void SoDiffuseColorElement::init (SoState * state) [virtual]

FIXME: write doc.

Reimplemented from SoReplacedElement.

const SbColor * SoDiffuseColorElement::getColorArrayPtr (void ) const

Returns the color array. Don't use this unless SoDiffuseColorElement::isPacked() returns FALSE.

This method is not part of the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.

Since: Coin 1.0

const uint32_t * SoDiffuseColorElement::getPackedArrayPtr (void ) const

Returns the packed color array. Don't use this unless SoDiffuseColorElement::isPacked() returns TRUE.

This method is not part of the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.

Since: Coin 1.0

bestie please actually check isPacked() before you call the right one. one of them is FALSE-girl and the other is TRUE-girl and they are NOT interchangeable 😭

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💜 Author 💜

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this was Coin version 4.0.10, dated Thu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00, and the manual is literally named SoDiffuseColorElement(3) — the whole thing, start to finish, in one sitting. slay 🫶✨