store getbbox into attribute

[isah_voodoo]

Hello again

I come with another vex question. This time I am trying to figure out the function getbbox and store it into an attribute to see what the values are actually doing,....

The help cards states: 

Sets two vectors to the minimum and maximum corners of the bounding box for the geometry.

void  getbbox(vector &min, vector &max)

So I am trying to follow this exactly.

vector min;
vector max;

getbbox(min,max);

@P.x *= (@P.y/max.y);

Now, I found this simple pieces of code on the forums somewhere and it works great. However, I am trying to store the getbbox into my own attribute so I can actually see the values but when I try, it gives me an error. This is what im doing:

vector min;
vector max;

v@myBound= getbbox(min,max);

@P.x *= (@P.y/max.y);

What exactly am I doing wrong here? Why does the getbbox function not let me store its values into an attribute? 

[anim]

vector min;
vector max;

getbbox(min,max);

v@bbox_min = min;
v@bbox_max = max;
//or as array containing both
v[]@bbox = array(min, max);

 

[ikoon]

Hi Matt, according to the docs, void  getbbox(vector &min, vector &max) is deprecated. We should use three arguments, first is the geometry input (integer number or "op:" string reference). 

getbbox (0, v@min, v@max);

This one line is also what you asked for. It stores the bounding box into two vector attributes.

[isah_voodoo]

@anim @ikoon Thanks you. This makes perfect sense now.