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

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "NS" == N Smethurst writes:

    NS> In the last few months, I've been developing a c++ based KDE
    NS> visualisation program that uses VTK and I've been toying with
    NS> using XML to implement an object browser in c++. My initial
[snip]

>From what I can understand of this, you'll have to store the entire
VTK API in XML files.  Thats a lot of data!  John generates new
classes using VTK's wrapper generation code.  Atleast that way the
data is part of your API but note that to do this your libraries will
be huge.  Compare this to the 2500 odd lines of code it takes to do
all this via Python (including GUI and pickling).

[snip]

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

If only you's switch to using Python/Tcl you could already leverage
existing code to do this. :-)

cheers,
prabhu