SoShininessElement(3)

✨ SoShininessElement ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading a Coin manpage together 💖 this one's from the SoShininessElement(3) corner of the manual, and lowkey the docs are still a work in progress, but we're gonna walk through every single thing on this page together, no skips, no cap 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SoShininessElement — the class is yet to be documented, bestie. that's literally the whole name section, it's giving "we'll finish this later" 😭

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Inventor/elements/SoShininessElement.h>

Inherits SoReplacedElement. so it's a nepo baby of the element hierarchy, iconic 💅

💜 Public Member Functions

• virtual void init(SoState *state)
• int32_t getNum(void) const — FIXME: write doc. yeah, they haven't written it yet 🙈
• float get(const int index) const — FIXME: write doc. same vibe, no doc yet 😭
• const float * getArrayPtr(void) const

🎀 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()

⭐ 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 numvalues, const float *const values) — FIXME: write doc. (the FIXMEs really said "we'll get to it" fr fr)
• static const SoShininessElement * 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)

💖 Protected Member Functions

• virtual ~SoShininessElement()

🍓 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

👑 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 💅

so the SoShininessElement class is, and I quote, yet to be documented.

FIXME: write doc. — the devs left us a lil sticky note, bestie, and honestly same 😭

one thing we do know: this element is part of the SoLazyElement in some other OI implementations. so it's the kind of thing that got folded into another class elsewhere, iykyk 💫

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🎀 CONSTRUCTOR & DESTRUCTOR DOCUMENTATION 🎀

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

Destructor. that's it, that's the whole note, short and sweet 🫶

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⭐ MEMBER FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION ⭐

SoType SoShininessElement::getClassTypeId(void) [static]

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class. so it's the "who dis" function for the type system 💅

int SoShininessElement::getClassStackIndex(void) [static]

This static method returns the state stack index for the class. like a lil seat number in the state stack auditorium 🎟️

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

okay so this API member is considered internal to the library, because it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer. (translation: not for you, bestie, but we still list it 💖)

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

void SoShininessElement::initClass(void) [static]

Initialize relevant common data for all instances, like the type system. the whole class getting its glow-up before anyone shows up ✨

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

This function initializes the element type in the given SoState. It is called for the first element of each enabled element type in SoState objects.

Reimplemented from SoReplacedElement.

const float * SoShininessElement::getArrayPtr(void) const

Returns a pointer to the shininess values. This method is not part of the OIV API. so it's a lil bonus, off-menu item, we love a secret 🍓

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

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