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Hi,
I am trying to write a AEIO plugin in order to import footage from my own graphic format. So far, I´ve been able to develop a very basic one (which works fine) but I would like to improve it a bit and I am somewhat stuck:
- Now, my plugin only imports the footage in 8 bits per channel, but my graphic format supports 32 bpc. In the documentation there is a flag called "AEIO_MFlag2_CAN_DRAW_FLOAT", but little help about how to use it. How do I fill the "PF_EffectWorld" with floats in my "AEIO_DrawSparseFrame" function? Effect plug-ins have a nice "get_pixel_data_float", but I cannot access that function from an AEIO, can I?
- My graphic format also supports layers. Again, there is a nice "AEIO_MFlag_HAS_LAYERS" in the documentation, but little help about how to use it. I would be happy if I could replicate the same behavior AE has when opening a .psd file (a UI Dialog asking for what layer to import) but I also have problems creating custom option dialogs ("AEIO_MFlag_SEQ_OPTIONS_DLG" is not documented, "AEIO_SeqOptionsDlg" never seems to get called no matter what, etc...). Also, if I go for a custom Win32 dialog, I can not manage to get a good hInstance (once more, "PF_GET_PLATFORM_DATA" seems to be available only to Effect plug-ins)
Any help or pointer is greatly appreciated!!
Cheers,
Oscar

To answer the question about getting a good hinstance you can do this:
static HINSTANCE GetCurrentHInstance()
    return reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(&__ImageBase);
Then to load the resource do this:
    CImage img;
    img.LoadFromResource(GetCurrentHInstance(), IDB_BITMAP1);
This is late but it should help someone... I hope.
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