Hi there,

I'm writing a library and I'm trying to turn off temporarly the smooth in whatever PGraphics, for rendering certain things.

This is my piece of code but it doesn't seem to work:
Code:

		    // Save smoothing state and turn off
		    boolean smoothing = g.smooth;
		    if(smoothing){g.smooth=false;}

		    for(int i=0;i<this.countStrips();i++){
				g.beginShape(g.TRIANGLE_STRIP);
				for(int j=0;j<this.strips[i].vertices.length;j++){
					  g.vertex(this.strips[i].vertices[j].x,this.strips[i].vertices[j].y);
				}
				g.endShape();
		    }

		    // Restore the old smoothing state
		    if(smoothing){g.smooth=true;}

 

using smooth() and noSmooth() isn't an option since certain PGraphicsX don't accept these methods.

By the way Ben: just a phylosophical question, wouldn't it be better to not throw the exception when in P3D using smooth(), and just ignore it? I think that would make the same code work under different renderers.

A more elegant method for checking would be to use Java's built in syntax:
Code:

if (!(parent.g instanceof PGraphics3)) 
   parent.noSmooth(); 

Marcello

Ricard wrote on Oct 28^th, 2005, 8:35pm:

because unless we throw an actual error, any sort of "warning" message goes unheeded. i.e. when we just printed warnings for the text() functions, we got a lot of questions about why fonts weren't showing up, even though the console had messages at least pointing to the problem.

have you tried putting the smooth/noSmooth calls inside a try/catch block

Code:

try {
  gx.smooth();
} catch (Exception e) { }  // ignore 

thanks, got it fixed for 94.