[vtk-developers] ruby patch to vtk-5.0.0

[David Gobbi]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David Gobbi <dgobbi at atamai.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>     >>  Instead of doing that he could also convert 3DSImporter to
>     >> ThreeDSImporter.  There are only a few (one?) classes that have
>     >> this problem so the benefit of not having to type Vtk::vtkFoo
>     >> seems well worth it.
>
>     David> I'd kind of like to see vtk3DSImporter renamed to
>     David> vtkThreeDStudioImporter, and not just for ruby's sake.
>
> I think this can be done in the wrappers without the need to change
> the C++ class names.
>   
Yes, but you have to agree that "vtk3DSImporter" isn't a good choice for 
a name,
precisely because it makes it difficult to remove the "vtk" prefix and 
turn it into a
namespace...

 - David

>     David> There is also a "vtk3DWidget" which is an important base
>     David> class.  I'm sure if Kitware would agree to renaming that
>     David> one, so your solution of having the wrapper do the renaming
>     David> would have to be applied.
>
> Right and that covers it.  
>
> import vtk
> import string
> for name in dir(vtk):
>     if name.startswith('vtk'):
>         if name[3] in string.digits:
>             print name
>
> vtk3DSImporter
> vtk3DWidget
>
>
> cheers,
> prabhu
>
>