[vtk-developers] vtkChemistry status and python bindings

[David Lonie]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I modified vtkMoleculePython.cxx, vtkAtomPython.cxx, and
> vtkBondPython.cxx by hand to see if I could make them usable...
> the experiment succeeded.  So I know that if I modify the wrapper
> code to prefer the copy constructor over the () constructor, then
> these classes can be wrapped.
>
> First, though, I had to modify the CMakeLists.txt to remove the
> ABSTRACT flag from the vtkAtom and vtkBond classes... Marcus,
> was it you who added that flag for these classes?  Maybe as part
> of an experiment to fool the wrappers?

That was me -- I don't recall exactly why, but it had something to do
with that vtkAtom and vtkBond don't inherit vtkObject. It may be
unnecessary, though.

> When I call print() on a vtkAtom object from python, it goes into
> infinite recursion and crashes, but I think that's an unrelated issue.

What method does python call when a print is requested? I can look
into this if I can reproduce it in c++.

Thanks,

Dave