[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
Mon Mar 26 11:58:50 EDT 2012


As far as Slicer is concerned, we migrated to python with the advent of
version 4 :)
Jc

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> So, for now I have applied a mapping of numerals to Roman numerals,
> and that works well. The TCL objects have the 2 replaced by II,
> everything else remains as is. This is a possible option too, although
> I am not particularly tied to the name.
>
> None of these classes were ever wrapped in Tcl or Java as we failed to
> add the handwritten code to make them part of those wrapped imports.
> This is not automated, but it does beg the question of how many Tcl
> users are out there and if they are largely supporting legacy Tcl
> scripts and not looking at new API.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> > That was my other thought, although at this stage the 3D stuff is so
> > new and small it hardly seems worth it. It also looks ugly to me, but
> > I could learn to live with it. As a policy it looks like we must only
> > allow letters a-z to guarantee it will work everywhere (or do some
> > weird transform for Tcl).
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
> > <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> >> Good point.
> >> On the other want if we still want to maintain the difference, what
> about
> >> "ContextThreeD" and "ContextTwoD" ?
> >>
> >> Jc
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> >> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Tcl has been an adventure. It appears that Tcl modules are not allowed
> >>> to have numbers in them, and so Rendering/Context2D and
> >>> Views/Context2D will have to change. Perhaps their names can simply be
> >>> Context, and that would remove the oddness that the 2D context modules
> >>> have some 3D rendering code in there too.
> >>>
> >>> Marcus
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