[vtkusers] Request to make some member function as virtual

[David E DeMarle]

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David E DeMarle
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Chiranjib Sur <sur.chiranjib at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I am working on my own implementation of vtkXMLWriter and I start with
> inheriting the vtkXMLWriter class. While doing this, I realised that I can
> obtain my desired XML data format if I can overload the function
> vtkXMLWriter::WriteArrayFooter(...)
> vtkXMLWriter::WriteArrayInline(...),
> vtkXMLWriter::WriteInlineData(..).
>
> Currently they are not declared as virtual function and hence the
> overloading will not work. I can do that by modifying the original vtk
> class and build my VTK library based on the changes. But these hacks will
> be gone once I update my VTk source codes.
>
> My question is the following :
> Is it possible to make these function virtual in future releases? Except
> the vtkXMLWriter class there is no other implementation of those functions,
> but they are being used by vtkXMLPolydataWriter since the latter is
> inherited from the base class.
>
> I am curious to know what is the thought here.
>
> Thanks,
> Chiranjib
>
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