[X3D-Public] For mutiple ROUTE fan-ins, how can we identify the sending node?

[Dave]

I've done several systems like this, using different browsers. I've 
found Contact the 'friendliest' so far, but I've had to do the same as you.
It's frustrating. Apparently, adding a node to a scene does not add its 
DEF name to the namespace by design (the Spec). I can't imagine
why. If name collision were to occur, an error would be returned, you'd 
think. Anyway Contact will at least bend if you addNode (top-level),
but not if you add as a child (which I'm sure you're doing).

I hope x3dom does not have this restriction, and I'd like to see all 
actively-developed browsers adopt a more liberal policy.

I too hope someone can offer a better solution, even if it means using a 
different player.

Dave A.

On 8/21/2010 5:54 AM, Silvia Maria Batraneanu wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>      I built a pretty complex scene which is used to monitor in 
> real-time the status of a big network.  The majority of the nodes are 
> prototypes and are generated dynamically using the Java SAI. All of 
> them are named and have their attributes changed at a certain moment 
> in time.  I need to perform identical actions such as current trafic 
> information and plot retrieval and often the most important 
> information I need to pass via ROUTEs is the name of the sending node 
> itself.
>    The only way I could do this is to use inside my prototypes an 
> additional MFString parameter in which I store the node name and a 
> very simple script that refreshes the value of this string and hence 
> creates an event which allows me to route this value to the target node.
>    I find my way of doing it cumbersome but I have no other idea. Am I 
> missing something , is there a simple way of doing this? Did anybody 
> else bump into this?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated:)
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia
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