[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Yes - it was just the module names. Class names have no impact here as
far as I can tell.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> It's just the modules that can't have digits (I think that Tcl
> reserves digits for version numbers, each Tcl module is versioned).
>
> However, I was helping a fellow write Ruby wrappers for VTK a while
> back, and he wanted "vtk" to be a namespace but couldn't because
> vtk::3DWidget is not a valid name...
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> This whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
>>
>> We've had classes named "vtk3DSImporter" and "vtk3DWidget" for a long time.
>>
>> Here's the doc for 3DWidget from the 5.8 docs:
>>
>>  http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.8/html/a00095.html
>>
>> Are you saying they've never been accessible from tcl?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
>> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> 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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