Re: [Plib-devel] Exposed bitmap loaders in SSG?

[steve <sjb...@ai...>]

Jan Reucker wrote:

> actually I never thought about exposing the loader subclasses.
> You call a non-class loader function that determines the file
> type and creates an object of the matching sub-class, then
> it returns a base-class-pointer.

Yeah - that's exactly what I'm talking about when I talk
about a 'factory' function.  Give it a filename - get back
the base class from which specific formats may either load
into or derive from.