Re: PyCxx

[Barry S. <ba...@ba...>]

On 18 Nov 2008, at 23:10, William Newbery wrote:

> I couldnt see any area on the sourcefordge stie for posting support  
> requests, since the new group seems to be read only...


Join the PyCXX user list. What is the "new group" you refer to?
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> Anyway the basic question is how do I create member varibles for  
> classes that can be accessed from python.

The basic answer is you implement getattr and setattr.

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> eg I have a Window class, that on creation creates a Input class:
> class Window...
> {
>   Input *input;
>   ...
> };
>
> I want the user to be able to access this as a varible to the window  
> instance, ie "mywindow.input.GetMousePos()".
>
> On the module class you provided a moduleDictionary() to retur a  
> dict, that i can assign varibles to, however classes dont seem to  
> have this, I tried implementing it through the getattr method, but  
> this seems to not work.

Try building the examples from the Demo folder. range.cxx implements  
getattr and works.

If you want to look at a substantial example look at the source of http://pysvn.tigris.org 
  that uses lots of PyCXX features.


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> Theres nothing in the docs I can see for doing this, is it something  
> yet to be implemented or am i going about it the wrong way?


You picked the right method getattr. We just need to help you get it  
working.

Barry