Make search_for_file() understand URLs.

[nageru] / image_input.cpp

diff --git a/image_input.cpp b/image_input.cpp
index e763ad599d7d7695dbfe7d788c8ba40a06d58eb1..a3a110c6ca293ae8beb12525f574c2c9cf6ad4c1 100644 (file)
--- a/image_input.cpp
+++ b/image_input.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ string search_for_file(const string &filename)
                return filename;
        }
 
+       // See if we match ^[a-z]:/, which is probably a URL of some sort
+       // (FFmpeg understands various forms of these).
+       for (size_t i = 0; i < filename.size() - 1; ++i) {
+               if (filename[i] == ':' && filename[i + 1] == '/') {
+                       return filename;
+               }
+               if (!isalpha(filename[i])) {
+                       break;
+               }
+       }
+
        // Look for the file in all theme_dirs until we find one;
        // that will be the permanent resolution of this file, whether
        // it is actually valid or not.