FLDcreate


Synopsis

create a field of a described type


OMobj_id FLDcreate (
OMobj_id parent_id,
const char *field_desc,
const char *name);

Description

FLDcreate creates a new field. The field's type is described by a string such as "Field_Unif", or "Field", or "Field_Struct".

Parameters

OMobj_id parent_id

An OMobj_id of which the field will be a subobject. This is usually the OMobj_id passed to the routine that calls FLDcreate.

const char *field_desc

A character string that holds a description of the type of field to be created. Any valid combination of field data schema subobjects is valid, for example, "Field_Struct" or "Mesh_Struct Space3 Dim3 Node_Data Scalar Float".

const char *name

A character string that defines the name by which the field will be known in the Object Manager.

Example

compat/modules/converts/avs2fld.c

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