SPly

This is a fork of RPly which adds support for custom I/O routines instead of always going through standard I/O (fopen, fread), CMake project files, and fixes to locale handling. It is fully compatible with the original RPly 1.1.x release series.

The changes are licensed under the same license as RPly and are provided by Matthäus G. Chajdas (dev@anteru.net).

Changelog

1.2

• RPly was renamed to SPly to make clear it's not longer just I/O related.
• SPly will now try to set locale to "C" to ensure that numbers with decimal points get correctly parsed. This seems to be the de-facto way PLY files have been written. This can be configured by setting the SPLY_USE_C_LOCALE variable to 0.

1.1.4

• ply_open_io and ply_create_io was added to allow providing custom I/O callbacks. See below for more information about this functionality.

Using the low-level I/O

The I/O functions are stored in a ply_io structure, along with a context and passed to the new ply_open_io and ply_create_io functions. The original ply_open and ply_close functions are merely wrappers which initialize a default I/O using the standard I/O routines (using the ply_stdio_* functions.)

All operations are passed through the read and write function callbacks. The read/write functions should not depend on the address of the ply_io structure. Everything required by the read/write functions must be stored in the context.

Depending on the mode only the read or the write function must be set. Setting both is not an error, but there is no mode which supports reading and writing at the same time.

For cleanup, a ply_io_close function may be specified which will be called during ply_close. This function can deallocate the context if necessary, as it is guaranteed that the context will not be used any more after the close callback has returned.