Hi, On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:48 +0200, Andreas Zieringer wrote: > > I am working on a project right now were I need to create a proprietary > > loader for OpenSG (ie. the loader can not be compiled into OpenSG and is > > not OpenSource). I was hoping/planning to compile it as a standalone > > shared object and then use OpenSG's file loading mechanisms to > > dynamically find the loader and initialize it at runtime. > > Unfortunately, I discovered yesterday that OpenSG does not yet support > > independent loader libraries. > > > > From what I understand, the only way to do something similar to this > > right now is to link the end user applications explicitly against my > > loader library. While this will work for applications that I create, it > > is not as flexible as I would like because I would like my users to be > > able to use the loader for pre-existing OpenSG application (for example > > the osgSceneViewer that comes with the distrib). > > > > What I would like to see in OpenSG is something similar to Performer and > > OSG where there is a loader/plugin path that points to directories where > > loaders/plugins can be found for the scene graph. Then when a user > > tries to open up a file like "myfile.custom" the scene loader code would > > search the path for a shared library like "opensgLoader_custom.so" or > > something similar to that. > > > > Are there any plans to add something like this to OpenSG in the near > > future? Does anyone have code sitting around that already implements > > something like this? What exactly would it take to implement a solution > > like this in OpenSG? > > > > Thanks, > > Allen > > Hi Allen, > > adding something like this is quite easy. What about a new global > setPluginPath() method and a OSG_PLUGIN_PATH envar. In osgInit it just > looks for all dll/so's in the plugin path and loads them via > dlopen/LoadLibrary. I wouldn't distinguish between different plugin > types just load all. > Any comments?
this already kind of exists for the *** version, currently as OSG_LOAD_LIBS where you name the libs to be loaded during osgInit. If needed I can move it over to the current release and add a plugin path if this makes things easier. regards, gerrit ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: GoToMeeting - the easiest way to collaborate online with coworkers and clients while avoiding the high cost of travel and communications. There is no equipment to buy and you can meet as often as you want. Try it free.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7402&alloc_id=16135&op=click _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
