Hi John, Extension alias certainly does work - it's used all the time by osgDB, go look inside src/osgDB/Registry.cpp to see lots of examples of it in action. What is happening at your end I can't guess, I don't have your code.
Robert. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jan Pečiva <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > thanks for the comment, however it does not work. Do I need to extend/patch > OSG? > > An investigation showed that many plugins check once again in readNode > method whether the extension is accepted. At this moment, ivx is refused. I > am not sure, but the explicit alias that user makes should be stronger than > what plugin thinks about itself. Reasons: Sometimes, software developers > just decide to change file extension while the format stays the same. The > application for interiors design may want to use "int" extension while file > format is still osg, or whatever. I think, OSG should allow to do that. > > Ideas? > > I suggest to change > > bool ReaderWriter::acceptsExtension(const std::string& extension) const; > > to accept even the extensions added by: > > osgDB::Registry::instance()->addFileExtensionAlias(from,to); > > Comments? > > Thx, > John > > > Robert Osfield wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jan Pečiva <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Question: Is is possible to register the ivx alias? >>> >> >> You have two options, to preload your plugin so it gets tried before >> any other plugin so can intercept and handle all .iv file reads, or to >> use an osgDB::Registry file extension alias. The later is probably >> the neatest solution can be done via: >> >> osgDB::Registry::instance()->addFileExtensionAlias("iv","ivx"); >> >> Robert. >> _______________________________________________ >> osg-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
