[vtkusers] Handling "out" pointer callData parameters in events from Python

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-06-26 16:13 GMT+02:00 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>>
>> David Gobbi, I think you worked on calldata support for Python (?), do
>> you know if it's currently impossible to handle these events correctly from
>> Python? (since they expect an answer through a memory write).
>>
>> I find these events quite strange actually. An event to me is something
>> you fire and forget, not a request for information like these ones seems to
>> be. Anyone know why the API was built like this?
>>
>
> I suspect that vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow is the only class that expects
> values to be returned via the calldata pointer.  This behavior is
> sufficiently strange that the Python wrappers will probably never support
> it.
>
> Instead of returning the information via the calldata pointer, you can
> call the following methods that were added to the class for this purpose:
>
>     // Description:
>     // Allow to update state within observer callback without changing
>     // data argument and MTime.
>     void SetIsDirect(int newValue);
>     void SetSupportsOpenGL(int newValue);
>     void SetIsCurrent(bool newValue);
>
> These methods were added in order to make it possible to use this class
> with Java, but they should work equally well with Python.
>

Excellent, thanks! I actually browsed past them while looking at the code,
but in a rush didn't realize that's precisely what they were for.

Elvis


>
>  - David
>
>
>
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