Re: Mach-O plug-ins for Quesa

[Peter M. <Pet...@mi...>]

Hi James,

Looks like you where busy over the weekend:-)

I read over the CVS submit of  E3MacSystem but there is no change to 
the actual CFM version for plug-in loading. Is this right? You could 
just put a comment next to "ResolveAliasFile" that a better option 
would be "FSResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags" on OS X as there is a 
problem with "ResolveAliasFile" hanging, causing strange results ( 
Actually what I was seeing and not asserting). Or use the code I 
submitted to the list with a system checking if-state to keep OS 7 
support with the value from the function that calls it "isOnOSX".

Two new question?

The RayShader renderer should this work like any other Quickdraw3D 
software renderer, e.g. as a plug-in?
And how would you rate it's completeness as a project ( mostly done or 
just started ) ?

The other question I see you are using CodeWarrior 9, did you find many 
problems upgrading for CodeWarrior 8.3 and was it worth it?
I ask, because we are thinking about upgrading but am unsure about the 
effort needed in the change?

Thanks for any answer. Peter Michelsen.

On 1 Nov 2004, at 01:57, James W. Walker wrote:

> Following the discussion of plug-in loading last week, I decided to 
> implement Mach-O plugin loading.  I decided that to try to make 
> plug-ins cross runtime architectures (Mach-O Quesa loading CFM plugin 
> or vice versa) would be too much effort for too little benefit.  So, a 
> CFM version of Quesa still only sees CFM shared library plug-ins.  On 
> the other hand, a Mach-o framework version of Quesa looks for Mach-o 
> bundle plugins, which are recognized by the extension ".quesaplug".
>
> In order for the framework version of Quesa to load its resources, it 
> needs to have an Info.plist file specifying the bundle identifier 
> "org.Quesa.Quesa", and to specify an initialization function 
> E3MacMachoFrameworkInit.  I've added a CodeWarrior 9 project to build 
> frameworks that way.  The XCode project will also need to be updated, 
> but I'm not sure I'm sufficiently comfortable with XCode to be mucking 
> about with it.
>
> In order to test all this, I updated RayShade to build a Mach-O plugin 
> version of it.
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