Re: [pygccxml-development] Abstract Classes

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On 5/31/06, Lakin Wecker <lak...@gm...> wrote:
> In Ogre, a frequent design used is to define an abstract base class,
> (Say RenderWindow).  Along with a Manager/Factory that creates that
> window for you.  Then the platform specific implementations of those
> classes are built to actually do the work.
>
> However, the API dictates that you ask the Manager/Factory for an
> implementation of RenderWindow (you don't care which), and you then
> use it as a generic RenderWindow interface.
>
>
> In py++, how do I model this?  I don't want to expose the platform
> specific implementations of the classes, as they're not needed. But I
> do need to somehow let the python run time know about the
> AbstractClass so that when I ask the Manager for one, I can use it
> from Python.
>
> When I directly include the class in the ouput, I get a compile error
> because of the lack of implementations ... of some methods.

I could be wrong, but it should work out of the box. I will check this at home.

> Anyways, I'm going to sleep now.  See you all in a few hours.

Good night

> Lakin


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