[vtkusers] Documentation of Tcl interface

[HIRAKI Hideaki]

At Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:52:12 +1100, Erin McKay wrote:
> > The methods not available from Tcl are put between "//BTX" and "//ETX"
> > in header files.
> >
> 
> My headers don't seem to follow this rule. I checked the headers for 
> vtkFloatArray and vtkCharArray (VTK 4.4.2). According to the above, 
> both should supply the SetArray method to the Tcl interface. But this 
> command is only available for vtkCharArray in my build (on OSX 10.3). 
> Is there something else going on here?
> 
> erin

As the first argument type of vtkFloatArray::SetArray is "float*",
this method cannot be wrapped. As the type in vtkCharArray is "char *", 
that happens to be same as a string, the method can be wrapped. 
It's because "everything is a string" in Tcl.

Recent Tcl (later than 8.0?) supports binary data other than strings.
But, as far as I know, VTK's wrapper doesn't utilize the new feature.

Hideaki Hiraki