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SAA Library

The SAA library provides a procedure for each of the functions in the Softimage SAAPHIRE API. SoftWish preloads all SAA procedures, so they are available without requiring any packages.

We provide a number of different ways to see how to use a SoftWish SAA procedure:

• SoftWish SAA procedure signature index.

• The info proc command will list all known commands which match a pattern. You can use this from the SoftWish Console command line to get the correct name of an SAA procedure when you know part of its name. Once you have a valid SAA procedure name you can get its parameters, and their types, by calling the procedure with no parameters, like this:

   

• Almost all SoftWish calls are identical in parameters, order of parameters and type of parameters to the C language calls documented in the SDK reference. So you can use the Softimage SAAPHIRE SDK documentation for SoftWish programming.  The only exceptions are the following routines, which have different parameters in SoftWish than in the Softimage SAAPHIRE SDK:
  • SAA_cusOperatorAddFcurveCallback
  • SAA_cusOperatorRemoveFcurveCallback
  • SAA_dialogAddCallback
  • SAA_dialogRemoveCallback
  • SAA_scenePopupViewer

   

• SoftWish SAA procedure calls used in libraries, examples and tutorials

All the procedures in the SAA library are implemented inside of the SoftWish shareable library; there is noTcl code.