[vtkusers] C++ introspection (was raw buffer access in Tcl)

[N Smethurst]

Hi everyone

I noticed this discussion on the idea of a c++ pipeline browser and thought 
I'd add my 2 cents..

In the last few months, I've been developing a c++ based KDE visualisation 
program that uses VTK and I've been toying with using XML to implement an 
object browser in c++. My initial reasoning was that loading/saving 
to/from the XML files of my application would slot in to this 
configuration, but the more I think about it, the more it looks to me that 
it could be a generally good way of providing general runtime manipulation 
for the pipeline browser I am writing.

My initial idea was to construct a simple base class with virtual domIn(..) 
and domOut(..) methods (plus a QListViewItem object for the browser in the 
case of my KDE app), and then to use multiple inheritance to construct a 
new set of classes derived from this base class and each VTK object class.  
The domIn/domOut methods would hopefully be written using an automated 
procedure, and would process/generate XML DOM elements passed/received by 
whatever needed to pass/receive them.

It struck me that if anyone else was interested in this kind of thing, a 
collaboration could beneficial. Is there anyone out there that would be 
interested in this idea? This part of my program could easily be 
non-program specific.

Nick

Le Lundi 16 Juin 2003 07:39, John Biddiscombe a écrit :
> > Writing a pipeline editor is sure possible but is IMHO best done in a
> > scripting language.  Writing it in C++ would be quite masochistic,
> > IMHO.
>
> Then I'd best change my name to the Marquis de Sade or something
> similar. You can have a play with RPD very soon. I'm just in the process
> of sorting out an upload to the web and in a few days it'll be
> available. It's only a dodgy beta that needs lots of fixes, but the
> general framework is quite stable and it can be used for real world vis
> stuff.
>
> JB
>
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