RE: [rgui-dev] Camelot

[Curt Hibbs]

Leon Torres wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Rich Kilmer wrote:
>
> > wxPython is generated via swig...so they have already implemented the .i
> > files for generating the wrappers.  That is _a lot_ of the hard work.
>
> That's excellent news! The only gotcha I'm aware of is to run swig without
> the -shadow directive as done for Python. If their interface is language
> agnostic, you might have your work cut out for you. Also, since
> wxwindows is C++, you might have downcast pointers to the appropriate
> subclass by hand. Look for '%typemap(out) Node * = SWIGTYPE *DYNAMIC'
> in the swig docs or ML archives.
>
> The swig interface file I wrote for ParaGUI is only 200 lines or so, most
> of it due to the downcasting by hand problem. For reference, this binding
> can be found in the following smallish tarball:
>
>   http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~leon/ruby/gutopia/ruby-binding.tgz
>
> Please see http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~leon/ruby/gutopia/paragui.html for
> more context. Hope that helps. :)

That helps a lot. Thanks for the tips!

Curt