bool Gui::SoFCDB::writeToVRML(SoNode* node, const char* filename, bool binary)
{
SoVRMLAction vrml2;
vrml2.setOverrideMode(true);
vrml2.apply(node);
SoToVRML2Action tovrml2;
tovrml2.apply(node);
SoVRMLGroup* vrmlRoot = tovrml2.getVRML2SceneGraph();
vrmlRoot->setInstancePrefix(SbString("o"));
vrmlRoot->ref();
std::string buffer = SoFCDB::writeNodesToString(vrmlRoot);
vrmlRoot->unref(); // release the memory as soon as possible
// restore old settings
vrml2.setOverrideMode(false);
vrml2.apply(node);
Base::FileInfo fi(filename);
if (binary) {
// We want to write compressed VRML but Coin 2.4.3 doesn't do it even though
// SoOutput::getAvailableCompressionMethods() delivers a string list that
// contains 'GZIP'. setCompression() was called directly after opening the file,
// returned TRUE and no error message appeared but anyway it didn't work.
// Strange is that reading GZIPped VRML files works.
// So, we do the compression on our own.
Base::ofstream str(fi, std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
zipios::GZIPOutputStream gzip(str);
if (gzip) {
gzip << buffer;
gzip.close();
return true;
}
}
else {
Base::ofstream str(fi, std::ios::out);
if (str) {
str << buffer;
str.close();
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
