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Foil 68 Events and Routes

From VRML 2 Basic Concepts and Definitions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 98. by Zeynep Ozdemir, Rob Baker, Meryem Ispirli, Geoffrey C. Fox


Events and Routes allow to make the VRML world dynamic such as clicking on a shape with a mouse can turn on a light, trigger a sound, or start up a machine.
To implement this, the events should be wired. One of them (eventOut) produces the event and the other one (eventIn) consumes it by implementing the necessary operation in the world.
Events are fields within the node. The sender and receiver nodes should has the same field type.
The connection between the node generating the event and the node receiving the event is called a Route.



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