connectViewports Function

Forms a connection between two or more Viewports such that a change in any one of the viewports is reflected in all of the others. When the connection is first formed, all of the viewports are synchronized to the current state of the first viewport in viewports. Thereafter, an event listener registered with each viewport's onViewChanged event is invoked when anything about that viewport's state changes. Each time such an event occurs, the initating ("source") viewport is passed to sync to obtain a function that can be invoked to synchronize each of the other ("target") viewports with the source viewport's new state. The function returned by sync can choose to synchronize any or all aspects of the viewports' states, such as the viewed volume, display style, viewed categories or models, or anything else.

To sever the connection, invoke the function returned by this function. For example:

 // set up the connection.
 const disconnect = connectViewports([viewport0, viewport1, viewport2], (changedViewport) => synchronizeViewportFrusta(changedViewport));
 // some time later, sever the connection.
 disconnect();

connectViewports(viewports: Iterable<Viewport, any, any>, sync: (changedViewport: Viewport) => SynchronizeViewports): () => void

@note onViewChanged can be invoked very frequently - sometimes multiple times per frame. Try to avoid performing excessive computations within your synchronization functions.

@returns a function that can be invoked to sever the connection between the viewports.

@see - connectViewportFrusta to synchronize the Frustum of each viewport.

Parameter Type Description
viewports Iterable<Viewport, any, any> The viewports to be connected. It should contain at least two viewports and no duplicate viewports. The initial state of each viewport will be synchronized with
the state of the first viewport in this iterable.
sync (changedViewport: Viewport) => SynchronizeViewports A function to be invoked whenever the state of any viewport in viewports changes, returning a function that can be used to synchronize the
state of each viewport.

Returns - () => void

a function that can be invoked to sever the connection between the viewports.

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Last Updated: 17 December, 2024