[vtk-developers] Templated filters

[Karthik Krishnan]

ok. thanks for the info.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Karthik Krishnan
> <karthik.krishnan at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 1. With VTK, we don't use templates in the interface (header files)
>> due to wrapping issues. That said, vtkFilter<vtkPointSet, vtkPolyData>
>> is probably abstract, so it won't be be wrapped anyway; so this may be
>> a non-issue
>
> The wrappers must still wrap the abstract classes, even if they can't
> instantiate them.  This is the only way that they can wrap the methods
> defined in abstract classes.  It's also necessary for the wrappers to
> wrap the abstract classes so that they can trace the hierarchy
> backwards to the parent classes of each abstract class.
>
>   David
>