I had the same problem with my STLLoader and was asking myself why couldn't the method take an InputStream as parameter.
What I did: return null and document that this method is not implemented. regards Paul Justin Couch schrieb: > I have a query from the javagaming site that I'd appreciate some advice > on. The person is writing a loader that loads a binary file format > (Quake 3 md3 files). The Loader interface includes a method that takes a > Reader instance. Obviously, the Reader and binary file formats do not mix. > > What is the collective wisdom on the correct response from his loader > implementation when this method is called? Should it throw a generic > IOException or do something more tricky? > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > Freelance Java Consultant http://www.yumetech.com/ > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. > Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism > processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with > all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." > - Greg Bear, Slant > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
