[Ves] Extending the App

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Pat,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Eduardo,
>
> You're correct that the vesKiwiViewerApp api is insufficient.  There's a
> branch called kiwi-update which has a new version of the code which adds
> methods to access the internal representations, and add new ones to the
> list.  You could use this branch, or modify your copy of vesKiwiViewerApp.
> The kiwi-update branch has a lot of changes to it though, so if don't want
> the disruption then I would recommend you just modify vesKiwiViewerApp to
> add accessors to the internal representations vector.


> But, you might be interested in some of the changes, there are new
> features to the existing image widget class
> vesKiwiImageWidgetRepresentation.  I'd be interested to hear from you if
> you want to share what you are doing with your ImageWidgetRepresentation
> class, and if you have any suggestions for improvements to the
> vesKiwiWidgetRepresentation base class.  Thanks!
>

As far as I know that branch need some clean up but other than that what
holding us to review that branch and get it into master? I guess I am in
favor of small topic branches. Please let me know. I also have few changes
pending but that can after you branch. We can follow up in separate email
if needed.

Thanks,



>
> Pat
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Eduardo Poyart <poyart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I extended vesKiwiViewerApp with my own subclass ViewerApp. I also needed
>> to create a new representation, which I called ImageWidgetRepresentation,
>> extending from vesKiwiWidgetRepresentation.
>>
>> I wrote a custom load routine in ViewerApp, and now I need to add the
>> data to Internal, with something like:
>>
>> this->Internal->DataRepresentations.push_back(rep);
>>
>> However this can't be done since vesKiwiViewerApp.Internal is private.
>> What is the correct design pattern in this case?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Eduardo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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