5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
4:17 p.m.
To take another example, WAV MP3 OGG etc... All audio
formats. All could
have a common interface, so any program could read from and write to these
files seamlessly, and the handler would handle the
compression/decompression.
I dont think this really needs to be an OS feature but it might be nice if any
applications that come with ReactOS offered sort of plug in file formats. You could easily
write say an MSPaint clone that used COM objects to access image files. 3rd parties would
then be able to write their own COM object for their own proprietary format. As good as
this would be I dont think it needs integrating with the kernel but it should maybe
something to bear in mind when people start to write applications to be shipped with
ReactOS.