Hi Robert,

Ok. I'll run with what I've got for the moment. The difficulty is that if I 
take an update of OSG it will blitz my amendments to accommodate this issue ;-(

Ho hum, not enough hours in the day I suppose.

Have a great weekend.

Neil.



---- Robert Osfield <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> I've just done a review of your changes and don't feel that it's done
> in the most flexible way.  What I usual do in the OSG with callbacks
> that add custom behaviors is to allow them override the default
> behavior completely, and if the custom callbacks wants it can always
> defer to the underlying implementation.
> 
> In this context the usual way to tackle this type of functionality
> would be to have the osgDB::findDataFile()/findLibraryFile()
> implementation move into Registry.cpp, and have
> osgDB::findDataFile()/findLibraryFile() simply use the
> Registry::findDataFile() to do its job.  The Registry::findDataFile()
> would then be an example of the template method design pattern which
> it checks for the callback and calls this, or calls the
> findDataFileImplemenetation().
> 
> As well as having a callback in the Registry I could also seem times
> when it would be useful to have the ReaderWriter::Options object
> provide a find callback as well.
> 
> The alternative to all this is just have a custom
> Registry::ReadFileCallback.  I will need to do some more thinking
> about the different possibilities on this front, but may well come up
> with a general solution or just decide the best thing to do is to use
> a ReadFileCallback...
> 
> Robert.
> 
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > As promissed, please find attached the amended files to support an 
> > application supplied search algorithm for locating files. I think it 
> > impacts minimally on exisiting users.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Neil.
> >
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