Re: [Plib-devel] Importers/Exporters

[Wolfram K. <w_...@rz...>]

Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> wrote:

>I think a formal error handler is needed because SSG gets used
>for full-screen graphics where a printout to stderr isn't going
>to be noticed.  For a program like PPE, you'd like to stuff the
>error message into a dialog box.

Yes, that would be nice. I normally have the console-window behind the
other two windows. 
However, I think if there is one error in a dialog and all the details
are in the console window, that is good enough for a long time.

But in reality, no error message comes in either a dialog nor in the
console. All the *.3ds, *.wrl, *.obj etc that are saved have exactly
the same size.

I found the error!

In PPE, it read
if ( ! ssgSaveSSG ( last_fname, model ) )
instead of
if ( ! ssgSave ( last_fname, model ) )

I just committed the fix.

So, it is not surprising that all the exporters didnt seem to work,
since everything was saved in ssg-format.
Also, I found a new program (3D exploration on Windo$), which among
other things, allows me to test *.ase.
The new results for the file-writers are very good:
*.obj: I saw no bug.
*.dxf: I saw no bug.
*.ase: Works quite well, but seems to exchange frontfaces and
backfaces.

Bye bye,
Wolfram.