Re: [Overflow] Dynamic toolbox loading

[Jean-Marc V. <jea...@he...>]

> I'm now trying to write new toolboxes for my personal
> needs. But when i put the .def file in the right
> directory I find the submenu in New Node menu but
> there is nothing in it. After investigation i
> understood that all other toolboxes' .so file are
> linked to vflow (gflow ...) at compile time.

Actually the toolboxes are loaded at run-time, not compile-time. When
vflow starts, it loads all the .tlb files in its path (install path +
VFLOW_PATH). The .tlb are in fact symlinks to the library .so. The
reason that we don't load all .so's is that on some systems the libs
were installed in such a way that everything got loaded twice. So
basically all you have to do is make a link from you .so to a .tlb and
place it in the right directory. Everything should work fine.

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin, M.Sc.A.
LABORIUS (http://www.gel.usherb.ca/laborius)
Universit=E9 de Sherbrooke, Qu=E9bec, Canada