[vtk-developers] New header file Wrapping/vtkParseType.h

[David Gobbi]

There were no comments about my changes to the wrappers so I went
ahead and pushed them.  So if anyone found vtkWrapPython.c to be
completely incomprehensible before, they should find the code to be a
little bit friendlier now.

In the longer term, I'm looking at how the wrappers can be made to
handle special types (with vtkVariant being the favorite).  The
wrappers used to handle special types fairly well, many years ago, but
support for special types fell by the wayside when vtkObjectBase was
introduced.  Last night I did some work to resurrect the old
special-type handling code with good results.

Of course one of my reasons for cleaning up the code is that I'm
always paranoid that someone is going to replace the existing wrappers
with "new, improved" wrappers that will never be as good as what we
have now...

   David


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:23 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've made a header file called vtkParseType.h that defines all of the
> type constants used by vtkParse.  The type constants are as follows:
>
> #define VTK_PARSE_FLOAT               0x01
> #define VTK_PARSE_VOID                0x02
> #define VTK_PARSE_CHAR                0x03
> #define VTK_PARSE_UNSIGNED_CHAR       0x13
>
> etcetera.  I've also modified vtkWrapPython.c to use these constants.
> Any objections if I drop this new header file into VTK/Wrapping?
>
>   David