Is there a method cross reference? (fwd)

[Tom G. Smith]

Thanks for the explanation of ListMethod.  I've now penciled 
"ListMethods, page 461" in the margins of the index to "The Visualization
Toolkit."  Writing a good index is the hardest part of finishing any
book, a discipline in its own right.

I hope I'm not being a pest, but I still have a question about output.
In Tcl, is there a way of directing the output of statements 2 and 3
in the following code snippet to stdout?  

1  vtkPolyVertex cells ;# Declare cells to be instance of PolyVertex.
2  cells ListMethods
3  cells Print

The only way I can see the output of such statements is to invoke
vtk with e.g. "vtk sample.tcl," press "u" in the rendered window and
manually enter them on the interactor command line.  Then the output
only shows in the interactor window.

> 
> The ListMethod function is not part of Vtk itself; you won't find it in
> in the C++ code. It is an extra function of the Tcl wrappers that are
> created automatically. So, you can use it only in Tcl. In compiled
> languages, there is no use to check at run time what kind of member
> functions exist!
> 
> Refer to the textbook "The Visualization Toolkit: an object oriented
> approach", page 461
> 
> Hope it helps, Marc
> 
> ir. Marc Schrijver
> Faculty of Electrical Engineering (S&S NT)
> University of Twente
> The Netherlands
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Tom G. Smith[SMTP:smitty at kcc.com]
> > Sent: 	Thursday, October 07, 1999 10:13 PM
> > To: 	M.Schrijver at el.utwente.nl
> > Cc: 	vtkusers at gsao.med.ge.com
> > Subject: 	Re: Is there a method cross reference? (fwd)
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip.  I couldn't get any output, however, when I put
> > "cells ListMethods" directly in my source, but rather had to enter
> > it on the command line in the interactor window.  Also, in what class
> > does the ListMethods method originate?  I expected to see ListMethods
> > listed in its own output.  When I didn't, I immediately assumed it
> > was in the highest level vtkObject class, but it's not listed on the
> > man page for vtkObject.
> > 
> > > 
> > > In this particular case, you could type in your Tcl shell (tclsh or
> > > wish):
> > > 
> > > vtkPolyVertex cells
> > > cells ListMethods
> > > 
> > > That will produce a list of all methods available for the given
> > > instance, grouped by class. I know it is not a true 'cross
> > reference'
> > > but it does what you wanted: quick, plain and easy.
> > > 
> > > Succes, Marc
> > > 
> > > ir. Marc Schrijver
> > > Faculty of Electrical Engineering (S&S NT)
> > > University of Twente
> > > The Netherlands
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
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