[Bf-committers] Python Curve API.

[Robert Wenzlaff]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 05:22 am, Stephen Swaney wrote:

>> scene.update(0) doesn't update them, and scene.update(1) crashes.

>I don't see this behavior.  My guess is that you are calling
>setControlPoint() with out of range parameters trying to add
>new points.  This trashes the data structures and causes a segfault.
>The setControlPoint call only modifies an existing point.

I only tried to set 1 cp, and it was returned with getControlPoint()

> I agree that a list of lists interface is 'nicer'.  Just for reference,
> a bezier curve control point is 9 values - 3 sets of x,y,z coordinates.
> A nurb control point is 4 values - a single x,y,z,w point.  Maybe the
> bezier control points should be accessed as a list of bezier triples?

Since they show the same behavior as IPO curves, I guess that would be 
a good way.

> I have posted a msg to the python list describing where I think the
> Curve API is headed.  Comments are welcome.

Thank you for the update.
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