[osg-submissions] Fixes for VRML2 plugin

[Gino van den Bergen]

Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> Hello Gino,
>
>   
>> You could be right about the correct URL format but this is what I had
>> to change in order  to be able to use OpenVRML 0.14.3.  
>>     
>
> That's weird, as I remember testing the "file://C:/data/blah" way and it 
> worked. Perhaps you could check why it doesn't and fix it...
>
>   
>> I believe some
>> time ago the consensus in the OSG community was to stick with OpenVRML 
>> 0.14.3, since following releases depended on boost. I'm not sure if this
>> is still the way to go.  
>>     
>
> That's right. There was no further work, because the new versions of 
> OpenVRML brought nothing new (nothing useful to the OpenVRML users 
> anyway) to compensate for the new boost dependency.
>
>   
>> Do you know which version of OpenVRML fixes the
>> URL issue? I can probably use the openvrml::browser::version() string
>> to  workaround this bug.
>>     
>
> No, I was using 0.14.3 as well. Something else might be wrong then... 
> You might have to look a bit deeper to find out.
>
> Sorry. But I don't think checking in a workaround would be a good idea. 
> Better to fix the real problem, if any.
>
> J-S
>   
Hi J-S,

I would have to fix it in OpenVRML then, and the fix then should be
retro-fitted into version 0.14.3. Or, we should create an OSG-dedicated
OpenVRML version. These options do not appeal to me very much. I think
it's better to keep things operable with the existing 0.14.3 version of
OpenVRML, whether the use of "file:///..." is standard-compliant or not.
Frankly, I do not care about standard-compliance. I just want the VRML
plugin to work with full file paths on Win32. But, in case you're
wondering which form is correct check
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx

Cheers,

Gino