I've been considering implementing OpenVRML for giggles which uses Boost::spirit for parsing. It's basically templating on steroids kind of C++ but can parse both standards fully. Except its GPLv3 so I don't know about license compatibility horseshit that comes with GPL.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <[email protected]> wrote: > I've checked the *.wrl file which had been purged of all entities not > recognized by the KiCad vrml parser and it still does not display. > There must be some other reason that the device does not display; > since the scale is very small I suspect there may be rounding issues. > When I have a little more time I'll use one of my tools to scale the > model and I'll report back if I find anything useful. > > For over a year I've thought that the code for loading vrml models > should be replaced and a few more vrml features should be > supported, but since it works pretty well and I see it as only > eye-candy the task has been on the very bottom of my list > of things to do. > > - Cirilo > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Mark Roszko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The root defect is the vrml has ~15 coordIndex tags that exceeds 128 >> bytes total. >> The parser being pretty bad uses a fixed 128 byte buffer to read tags >> into. >> The parser in GetNextTag did not have bound checking and thus would >> happily corrupt memory reading in that tag. >> >> My patch prevented GetNextTag from overflowing. >> There's still some funniness with he model as it won't load but I >> suspect its because its using unsupported vrml definitions. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Mark _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

