[Verse-dev] Bitmap layer ids

[Eskil Steenberg]

Hi

Im back form Siggraph!

> ok, i have understand. Although the workaround helps here, this IMHO 
> not a clean solution...

This is not a bug its a feature.... But i understand that it may not be 
obvious.

It has to be that way. you may actually want to first create a layer and 
then rename it. Since verse doesnt store data it doesnt know what ids 
are confirmed or not, thats something you have to keep track of. 
(remember verse.h is designed to be low level, in higher level APIs like 
Enough you can have functions like e_nsg_find_empty_vertex_slot(ENode 
*node, uint start); to solve the problem).

if you call thees two commands:

verse_send_g_layer_create(node_id, 2, "my_layer", VN_G_LAYER_VERTEX_XYZ, 
0, 0);
verse_send_g_layer_create(node_id, 2, "others_layer", 
VN_G_LAYER_VERTEX_XYZ, 0, 0);

This is fully legal to do, and it means you want to create a layer and 
then rename it. If the user actually wanted to create two layers he or 
she used the api in the wrong way. I would argue that in this case Verse 
knows very well what it is doing because it is likely only to send the  
later call in order to optimize the network usage since it knows that 
the first will be over written by the second.

E