Re: [pygccxml-development] special functions/operators

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

On Monday 28 August 2006 9:22 am, Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Matthias Baas <ba...@ir...> wrote:
> > Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> > >> We can indeed use cdef for this, but it's rather low level.  I wonder
> > >> if we
> > >> can make a better api for this, maybe something like:
> > >>
> > >> add_method (...)
> > >
> > > You and Matthias are solving different problems.
> > > Matthias generates new function from the script and than adds it to the
> > > class.
> >
> > Well, not only. In my Maya bindings I'm also doing the same thing as
> > Neal, i.e. I have manually written C++ functions that I add as methods
> > to some classes using cdef().
>
> It does not different from what I say. You did not feed the
> declarations to Py++.
>
> > > You already have function declaration, and the only thing you want to
> > > do is to associate it
> > > with the class. I think it will take only few hours to implement what
> > > you are asking for.
> > >
> > > cls = mb.class_("X")
> > > f = mb.free_function( "addAssign" )
> > > cls.add_method( f )
> >

I don't understand all of what you guys said, but it sounds like this is what 
I had in mind.

f = mb.free_function ("addAssign")

what is "free_function"?  Is this new or already existing?

cls.add_method (f) sounds right.  I guess need to be able to set some 
properties on it as well.  Usual stuff.