[Playerstage-developers] [ playerstage-Patches-2925869 ] Plugin models

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Patches item #2925869, was opened at 2010-01-05 10:46
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Category: Stage
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: RAZOR (razorunreal)
Assigned to: Richard Vaughan (rtv)
Summary: Plugin models

Initial Comment:
I've written some code to allow new model types to be registered by specifying a plugin library in the world file, with syntax:

plugin "libmymodel"

Upon parsing the plugin statement the function RegisterPlugin will be called, so the plugin library must contain code something like:

extern "C"
{
void RegisterPlugin(void)
{
  Register( "mymodel", Creator<ModelMyModel> ); // Register model with stage so it can be created
}
}

The idea is that you should not have to reinstall stage every time you modify a model, you should be able to use a standard stage package and still develop your own models. I should have a similar plugin system ready for interfaces in libstageplugin soon.

To avoid duplicate code, I have shifted the plugin loading code out of LoadControllerModule and into stage.cc so I can reuse it for other plugin systems. I'm not sure if that is the best place to put it, and I hope I have not made any mistakes while making it more generic.

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