[vtkusers] Enabling python SIP wrapping

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 09:12:30 +0200, Andrea Borsic wrote:
> I used to wrap VTK with SIP/Python with VTK 5.x / Qt 4.x
> 
> I have recently switched to VTK 6.2 / Qt 5.4, with Python 2.7 - this 
> under Windows 8.1 64bit / VS 2013 / CMAKE 3.x. During the project 
> configuration stage with CMAKE the variable VTK_WRAP_PYTHON_SIP does not 
> show in the main variables nor I have found it using a search on the 
> advanced variables, and therefore I am not sure about how to wrap with 
> SIP. SIP support seams to be still there though, as for example the 
> vtkWrapPython.sip CMAKE module is in the source tree.
> 
> Can anybody please suggest how I could enable SIP wrapping ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions and thank you for your time,

SIP wrapping was missed during the modularization of VTK. Some bits are
laying around, but nothing ever calls or uses it. It will likely need
porting to the modular infrastructure. What classes did you need access
to? The classes SIP would wrap currently are:

    QVTKGraphicsItem
    QVTKInteractor
    QVTKInteractorAdapter
    QVTKWidget
    QVTKWidget2
    vtkQtAbstractModelAdapter
    vtkQtAnnotationLayersModelAdapter
    vtkQtTableModelAdapter
    vtkQtTreeModelAdapter

All the rest should be handled by VTK's wrappers.

--Ben