script generated instances

i don't seem to be able to instanciate a proto in a script, i think it
really should work but, Cortona says 'unrecognised node' and Contact
says nothing but the result is NULL, can anyone see whats wrong or is
it browser problems.

BTW im trying to have a script place some objects into a world, the
script has the logic of how to arrange them but doesn't know what, or
how many, objects are being added.


example;
( replacing 'myproto{}' with the text inside the proto definition
causes this to work)

#VRML V2.0 utf8
PROTO myproto []{
Shape {geometry Box {}}
}

DEF scrpt Script {
eventOut MFNode out
url [ "javascript:
function initialize(){
out=new MFNode(new SFNode('myproto{}'));
}"
]
}

DEF trans Transform {}
ROUTE scrpt.out TO trans.addChildren

On Jun 9, 6:15*pm, simon <simon.pl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> i don't seem to be able to instanciate a proto in a script, i think it
> really should work but, Cortona says 'unrecognised node' and Contact
> says nothing but the result is NULL, can anyone see whats wrong or is
> it browser problems.
>
> BTW im trying to have a script place some objects into a world, the
> script has the logic of how to arrange them but doesn't know what, or
> how many, objects are being added.
>
> example;
> ( replacing 'myproto{}' with the text inside the proto definition
> causes this to work)
>
> #VRML V2.0 utf8
> PROTO myproto []{
> * * * * * * *Shape {geometry * *Box * * {}}
>
> }
>
> DEF scrpt Script {
> * * * * eventOut MFNode out
> * * * * url [ *"javascript:
> * * * * * * * * function initialize(){
> * * * * * * * * * * * *out=new MFNode(new SFNode('myproto{}'));
> * * * * * * * * }"
> * * * * *]
>
> }
>
> DEF * * trans Transform {}
> ROUTE scrpt.out TO trans.addChildren

That works:
#VRML V2.0 utf8

DEF scrpt Script {
eventOut MFNode out
url [ "javascript:
function initialize(){
out=Browser.createVrmlFromString('PROTO myproto []{Shape
{geometry Box{}}} myproto{}');
}"
]
}

DEF trans Transform {}
ROUTE scrpt.out TO trans.addChildren

> > BTW im trying to have a script place some objects into a world, the
> > script has the logic of how to arrange them but doesn't know what, or
> > how many, objects are being added.

so the node can't be defined in the script.