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+/****************************************************************************
+* MeshLab                                                           o o     *
+* A versatile mesh processing toolbox                             o     o   *
+*                                                                _   O  _   *
+* Copyright(C) 2005                                                \/)\/    *
+* Visual Computing Lab                                            /\/|      *
+* ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |      *
+*                                                                    \      *
+* All rights reserved.                                                      *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify      *   
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by      *
+* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or         *
+* (at your option) any later version.                                       *
+*                                                                           *
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,           *
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of            *
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the             *
+* GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)          *
+* for more details.                                                         *
+*                                                                           *
+****************************************************************************/
+/****************************************************************************
+  History
+
+ $Log$
+ Revision 1.22  2006/03/07 13:30:24  cignoni
+ undoed wrong removal...
+
+ Revision 1.20  2006/02/16 19:29:20  fmazzant
+ transfer of Export_3ds.h, Export_obj.h, Io_3ds_obj_material.h from Meshlab to vcg
+
+ Revision 1.19  2006/02/15 23:09:06  fmazzant
+ added the part of MeshIO credits
+
+ Revision 1.18  2006/01/19 15:59:00  fmazzant
+ moved savemaskexporter to mainwindows
+
+ Revision 1.17  2006/01/19 09:36:28  fmazzant
+ cleaned up history log
+
+ Revision 1.16  2006/01/17 13:47:45  fmazzant
+ update interface meshio : formats -> importFormats() & exportFormts
+
+ Revision 1.15  2005/12/15 01:20:28  buzzelli
+ formats method adapted in order to fit with recent changes in MeshIOInterface
+
+ Revision 1.14  2005/12/09 00:34:31  buzzelli
+ io importing mechanism adapted in order to be fully transparent towards the user
+
+ Revision 1.13  2005/12/07 07:52:25  fmazzant
+ export obj generic(base)
+
+ *****************************************************************************/
+#ifndef EXTRAIOPLUGIN_H
+#define EXTRAIOPLUGIN_H
+
+#include <QObject>
+#include <QStringList>
+#include <QString>
+
+#include "../../meshlab/meshmodel.h"
+#include "../../meshlab/interfaces.h"
+
+class ExtraMeshIOPlugin : public QObject, public MeshIOInterface
+{
+  Q_OBJECT
+  Q_INTERFACES(MeshIOInterface)
+
+  
+public:
+	QList<Format> importFormats() const;
+	QList<Format> exportFormats() const;
+	const ActionInfo &Info(QAction *);
+    const PluginInfo &Info();
+	int GetExportMaskCapability(QString &format) const;
+
+	bool open(const QString &formatName, QString &fileName, MeshModel &m, int& mask, vcg::CallBackPos *cb=0, QWidget *parent=0);
+	bool save(const QString &formatName, QString &fileName, MeshModel &m, const int& mask, vcg::CallBackPos *cb=0, QWidget *parent= 0);
+};
+
+#endif