JC> that the JAR file was located in? From memory, the J3D VRML loader
JC> doesn't have any capabilities at all for dealing with these issues.
Yes, i heard that too. But what if u use full url in wrl file and put the
textures wrl model refers to outside the jar file it's being wrapped
into? Actually i haven't tried it myself (all i did was loading wrl model
without any textures from .jar file), but guess this should work out.
vladimir
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JC> Vladimir Olenin wrote:
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>> Just jar the your.wrl file and load it via jar: protocol like this:
>> jar:http:\\yourdomain\yourjar.jar!\your.wrl. For further information
>> see API doc for JarURLConnection class.
JC> The problem with this is that VRML itself is not defined to work from a
JC> JAR file. Don Brutzman was extremely keen for me to get that into the
JC> EAI and scripting specs, but it never happened because there was no
JC> elegant solution at the time. I then left VRML efforts.
JC> Sometime later, I can up with a nice solution. I proposed to Don to make
JC> the appropriate wording additions to the EAI spec but got knocked back.
JC> The grounds were that the EAI was going through the ISO process (which
JC> it _still_ hasn't to my knowledge). Therefore the behaviour of VRML in
JC> any archived format (JAR, ZIP, CAB etc) is completely non-deterministic.
JC> The problem is dealing with relative references. For example, if you
JC> refer to a texture as "image.png" how does the browser know whether to
JC> fetch it from the same dir in the JAR file, or from the same directory
JC> that the JAR file was located in? From memory, the J3D VRML loader
JC> doesn't have any capabilities at all for dealing with these issues.
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