SoSFImage Class Reference
Field Classes

The SoSFImage class is used to store pixel images. More...

`#include <Inventor/fields/SoSFImage.h>`

Inheritance diagram for SoSFImage:

## Public Types

enum | CopyPolicy { COPY , NO_COPY , NO_COPY_AND_DELETE , NO_COPY_AND_FREE }
Public Types inherited from SoField
enum | FieldType { NORMAL_FIELD = 0 , EVENTIN_FIELD , EVENTOUT_FIELD , EXPOSED_FIELD }

## Public Member Functions

virtual SoType | getTypeId (void) const
virtual void | copyFrom (const SoField &field)
const SoSFImage & | operator= (const SoSFImage &field)
virtual SbBool | isSame (const SoField &field) const
const unsigned char * | getValue (SbVec2s &size, int &nc) const
const SbImage & | getValue () const
void | setValue (const SbVec2s &size, const int nc, const unsigned char *pixels, CopyPolicy copypolicy=COPY)
int | operator== (const SoSFImage &field) const
int | operator!= (const SoSFImage &field) const
unsigned char * | startEditing (SbVec2s &size, int &nc)
void | finishEditing (void)
void | setSubValue (const SbVec2s &dims, const SbVec2s &offset, unsigned char *pixels)
void | setSubValues (const SbVec2s *dims, const SbVec2s *offsets, int num, unsigned char **pixelblocks)
unsigned char * | getSubTexture (int idx, SbVec2s &dims, SbVec2s &offset) const
SbBool | hasSubTextures (int &numsubtextures)
void | setNeverWrite (SbBool flag)
SbBool | isNeverWrite (void) const
SbBool | hasTransparency (void) const
Public Member Functions inherited from SoSField
virtual | ~SoSField ()
Public Member Functions inherited from SoField
virtual | ~SoField ()
void | setIgnored (SbBool ignore)
SbBool | isIgnored (void) const
void | setDefault (SbBool defaultVal)
SbBool | isDefault (void) const
SbBool | isOfType (const SoType type) const
void | enableConnection (SbBool flag)
SbBool | isConnectionEnabled (void) const
SbBool | connectFrom (SoEngineOutput *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE, SbBool append=FALSE)
SbBool | appendConnection (SoEngineOutput *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE)
void | disconnect (SoEngineOutput *engineoutput)
SbBool | isConnectedFromEngine (void) const
SbBool | getConnectedEngine (SoEngineOutput *&master) const
SbBool | connectFrom (SoField *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE, SbBool append=FALSE)
SbBool | appendConnection (SoField *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE)
void | disconnect (SoField *field)
SbBool | isConnectedFromField (void) const
SbBool | getConnectedField (SoField *&master) const
int | getNumConnections (void) const
int | getForwardConnections (SoFieldList &slavelist) const
int | getConnections (SoFieldList &masterlist) const
void | disconnect (void)
SbBool | isConnected (void) const
void | setContainer (SoFieldContainer *cont)
SoFieldContainer * | getContainer (void) const
SbBool | set (const char *valuestring)
void | get (SbString &valuestring)
SbBool | shouldWrite (void) const
virtual void | touch (void)
virtual void | startNotify (void)
virtual void | notify (SoNotList *nlist)
SbBool | enableNotify (SbBool on)
SbBool | isNotifyEnabled (void) const
void | addAuditor (void *f, SoNotRec::Type type)
void | removeAuditor (void *f, SoNotRec::Type type)
int | operator== (const SoField &f) const
int | operator!= (const SoField &f) const
virtual void | connectionStatusChanged (int numconnections)
SbBool | isReadOnly (void) const
virtual void | fixCopy (SbBool copyconnections)
virtual SbBool | referencesCopy (void) const
void | copyConnection (const SoField *fromfield)
virtual SbBool | read (SoInput *input, const SbName &name)
virtual void | write (SoOutput *out, const SbName &name) const
virtual void | countWriteRefs (SoOutput *out) const
void | setFieldType (int type)
int | getFieldType (void) const
SbBool | getDirty (void) const
void | setDirty (SbBool dirty)
void | evaluate (void) const

## Static Public Member Functions

static void * | createInstance (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | initClass (void)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoSField
static void | initClass (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | atexit_cleanup (void)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoField
static void | initClass (void)
static void | initClasses (void)
static void | cleanupClass (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)

## Additional Inherited Members

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoSField
| SoSField (void)
Protected Member Functions inherited from SoField
| SoField (void)
void | valueChanged (SbBool resetdefault=TRUE)
virtual void | evaluateConnection (void) const
virtual SbBool | readConnection (SoInput *in)
virtual void | writeConnection (SoOutput *out) const
SbBool | isDestructing (void) const
virtual SoNotRec | createNotRec (SoBase *cont)

## Detailed Description

The SoSFImage class is used to store pixel images.

The SoSFImage class provides storage for inline 2D image maps. Images in Coin are mainly used for texture mapping support.

SoSFImage instances can be exported and imported as any other field class in Coin.

The components of an SoSFImage is: its image dimensions (width and height), the number of bytes used for describing each pixel (number of components) and an associated pixel buffer. The size of the pixel buffer will be width*height*components.

For texture maps, the components / bytes-per-pixel setting translates as follows: use 1 for a grayscale imagemap, 2 for grayscale + opacity (i.e. alpha value), 3 for RGB (1 byte each for red, green and blue) and 4 components means 3 bytes for RGB + 1 byte opacity value (aka RGBA).

This field is serializable into the Inventor / Coin file format in the following manner:

FIELDNAME X Y C 0xRRGGBBAA 0xRRGGBBAA ...

"X" and "Y" are the image dimensions along the given axes, "C" is the number of components in the image. The number of 0xRRGGBBAA pixel color specifications needs to equal the exact number of pixels, which of course is given by X*Y. Each part of the pixel color value is in the range 0x00 to 0xff (hexadecimal, 0 to 255 decimal).

For 3-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXRRGGBB, where the byte in the pixel color value marked as "XX" is ignored and can be left out.

For 2-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXXXGGAA, where the bytes in the pixel color values marked as "XX" are ignored and can be left out. "GG" is the part which gives a grayscale value and "AA" is for opacity.

For 1-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXXXXXGG, where the bytes in the pixel color values marked as "XX" are ignored and can be left out.

The pixels are read as being ordered in rows along X (width) and columns along Y (height, bottom to top).

Here's a simple example of the file format serialization, for a 2x2 RGB-image inside an SoTexture2 node, as mapped onto an SoCube:

Complexity { textureQuality 0.1 } # set low to avoid smoothing
Texture2 {
image 2 2 4
0xffffffff 0x00ff0088 # white semi-transparent green
0xff0000ff 0xffff00ff # red yellow
}
Cube { }
SoField::set
SbBool set(const char *valuestring)
Definition SoField.cpp:1350

The mini-scene graph above results in the following mapping on the cube:

Rendering of Example Scenegraph

The cube has only been slightly rotated, so as you can see from the snapshot, the Y-rows are mapped from bottom to top, while the X-column pixels are mapped onto the cube from left to right.

See also
  SoTexture2, SoSFImage3

## Member Function Documentation

## createInstance()

void * SoSFImage::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.

## getClassTypeId()

SoType SoSFImage::getClassTypeId | ( | void |  | ) |

static

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

## getTypeId()

SoType SoSFImage::getTypeId | ( | void |  | ) | const

virtual

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoField. This is used for runtime type checking and "downward" casting.

Implements SoField.

## copyFrom()

void SoSFImage::copyFrom | ( | const SoField & | f | ) |

virtual

Copy value(s) from f into this field. f must be of the same type as this field.

Implements SoField.

## isSame()

SbBool SoSFImage::isSame | ( | const SoField & | f | ) | const

virtual

Check for equal type and value(s).

Implements SoField.

## initClass()

void SoSFImage::initClass | ( | void |  | ) |

static

Internal method called upon initialization of the library (from SoDB::init()) to set up the type system.

## getValue() [1/2]

const unsigned char * SoSFImage::getValue | ( | SbVec2s & | size,
|  | int & | nc ) const

Return pixel buffer, set size to contain the image dimensions and nc to the number of components in the image.

## getValue() [2/2]

const SbImage & SoSFImage::getValue | ( |  | ) | const

Return values

  SbImage | contained by this SoSFImage

## setValue()

void SoSFImage::setValue | ( | const SbVec2s & | size,
|  | const int | nc,
|  | const unsigned char * | pixels,
|  | SoSFImage::CopyPolicy | copypolicy = COPY )

Initialize this field to size and nc.

If pixels is not `NULL`, the image data is copied from pixels into this field. If pixels is `NULL`, the image data is cleared by setting all bytes to 0 (note that the behavior on passing a `NULL` pointer is specific for Coin, Open Inventor will crash if you try it).

The image dimensions is given by the size argument, and the nc argument specifies the number of bytes-pr-pixel. A 24-bit RGB image would for instance have an nc equal to 3.

The copypolicy argument makes it possible to share image data with SoSFImage without the data being copied (thereby using less memory resources). The default is to copy image data from the pixels source into an internal copy.

Important note: if you call this with copypolicy as either `NO_COPY_AND_DELETE` or `NO_COPY_AND_FREE`, and your application is running on Microsoft Windows, be aware that you will get mysterious crashes if your application is not using the same C library runtime as the Coin library.

The cause of this is that a memory block would then be allocated by the application on the memory heap of one C library runtime (say, for instance `MSVCRT.LIB`), but attempted deallocated in the memory heap of another C library runtime (e.g. `MSVCRTD.LIB`), which typically leads to hard-to-debug crashes.

Since
  The CopyPolicy argument was added in Coin 2.0.
  CopyPolicy was added to TGS Inventor 3.0.

## operator==()

int SoSFImage::operator== | ( | const SoSFImage & | field | ) | const

Compare image of field with the image in this field and return `TRUE` if they are equal.

## operator!=()

int SoSFImage::operator!= | ( | const SoSFImage & | field | ) | const

inline

Compare image of field with the image in this field and return `FALSE` if they are equal.

## startEditing()

unsigned char * SoSFImage::startEditing | ( | SbVec2s & | size,
|  | int & | nc )

Return pixel buffer. Return the image size and components in size and nc.

You cannot use this method to set a new image size. Use setValue() to change the size of the image buffer.

The field's container will not be notified about the changes until you call finishEditing().

## finishEditing()

void SoSFImage::finishEditing | ( | void |  | ) |

Notify the field's auditors that the image data have been modified.

## setSubValue()

void SoSFImage::setSubValue | ( | const SbVec2s & | dims,
|  | const SbVec2s & | offset,
|  | unsigned char * | pixels )

Not yet implemented for Coin. Get in touch if you need this method.

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor 3.0

## setSubValues()

void SoSFImage::setSubValues | ( | const SbVec2s * | dims,
|  | const SbVec2s * | offsets,
|  | int | num,
|  | unsigned char ** | pixelblocks )

Not yet implemented for Coin. Get in touch if you need this method.

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor 3.0

## getSubTexture()

unsigned char * SoSFImage::getSubTexture | ( | int | idx,
|  | SbVec2s & | dims,
|  | SbVec2s & | offset ) const

Not yet implemented for Coin. Get in touch if you need this method.

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor 3.0

## hasSubTextures()

SbBool SoSFImage::hasSubTextures | ( | int & | numsubtextures | ) |

Returns whether or not sub textures was set up for this field.

If `TRUE` is returned, the numsubtextures argument will be set to the number of sub textures in this image. This number can be used for iterating over all textures with the SoSFImage::getSubTextures() method.

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor 3.0

## setNeverWrite()

void SoSFImage::setNeverWrite | ( | SbBool | flag | ) |

Set this flag to true to avoid writing out the texture to file. This can save a lot on file size.

Default value is `FALSE` (i.e. write texture data to file.)

(Note: yet unimplemented for Coin.)

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor ?.?

## isNeverWrite()

SbBool SoSFImage::isNeverWrite | ( | void |  | ) | const

Returns value of "never write texture data" flag.

See also
  SoSFImage::setNeverWrite()

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor ?.?

## hasTransparency()

SbBool SoSFImage::hasTransparency | ( | void |  | ) | const

Returns `TRUE` if at least one pixel of the image in this field is not completely opaque, otherwise `FALSE`.

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor ?.?

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

- SoSFImage.h
- SoSFImage.cpp