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From: Simon Wood <simon@mintsauce.com>
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Subject: Hierarchic Objects
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 18:01:35 +0100
Organization: Black Sheep Design
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Hi

I am having some problems achieving hierarchical objects.  I want to
achive the effect shown on page 66 of the User Guide using multiple TMD
objects, so far I have failed miserably.  I want the outer group to
control the overall path of the objects, and the individual objects to
'twiddle' within that path.  I want the path to be specified on the
outer group object and not have to specifiy it on any of the child
objects.  I assume this is done with the super field of the
GsCOORDINATE2 structure.  At present I am using the function in the file
object.c supplied with the tuto?.c files.  I am willing to move away
from using that file if it makes things easier.  I would like to
understand the low-level solution as well as the object.c based
solution.  Ultimately I will move away from object.c anyway, but at the
moment I am pressed for time on this project.

I realise that this should be fairly and I am sure I am missing
something simple and fundamental;  But I have not managed to find any
samples that do this and the documentation does not seem to address the
point beyond page 66 of the User Guide.

Any hints, clues, sample code, references, websites etc. would be much
appreciated.

Regards

Simon Wood
Black Sheep Design
simon@mintsauce.com