I have been looking at the code for OSG::Image today and there seems to 
be some crufty code related to name and filename.

At first it looked like Image has a field called "name" that seems to be 
used to hold the filename of the image instead of a name describing the 
image.  But then after looking at the image loader I found that it adds 
attachment fields for the filename and the full file path even though it 
still puts the full file path in the name field.  The VRML writer seems 
to look for the attachment first and thens falls back on the name 
field.  On the other hand the OSB field only looks at the name field.

So, I have a few questions:

- Why isn't there a filename field for storing the name of the file?  
(this would allow the name field to be used to describe the image)
- Why does the loader store the filename and full file path in attachments?

In a perfect world I would think the code would have separate name and 
filename fields and that the filename would be a relative path from the 
file that the image is used within.  That way when a loader loads a file 
it can find the image and load it.  Or perhaps there could be a file 
search path that is used to find the file.  This seems to be what 
PathHandler is for, but I don't know for sure.

-Allen


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