Hi Robert, Thank you for the time you take to make your response, and the level of information you included in it. Unfortunately I think you may have misunderstood my original question. I was not inquiring about the possibility of serializing my own classes into the native binary format, but rather I was wishing to know whether a class that implements the ReaderWriter functionality (i.e. the readNode and writeNode methods present in all osgDB plugins) for a new format must be compiled into an external plugin (.so), or whether it can be incorporated directly into my application code, and compiled as part of my application binary. The instructions I was able to find on the wiki regarding plugin implementation is a bit sketchy, and only covered the possibility of helping the osgDB locate ReaderWriter plugins that are actually stored as external plugins and not compiled into my application.
Additionally I was wondering what "proper plugin etiquette" is for plugins that read a format, but do not also write to it. I noticed some plugins conditionally return a Code: WriteResult(WriteResult::FILE_NOT_HANDLED); My question on this second issue is whether it is "better manners" for my ReaderWriter class to implement a writeNode function that ALWAYS returns FILE_NOT_HANDLED, or whether it is best to just leave the function unimplemented. Thanks, Thomas ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=31803#31803 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
