2012/8/9 Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:53:42AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Then a facade between python and wx would be the best; also it would be > an 'insulation layer' from C++ specific stuff, providing context and > translation (for example 'hiding' the whole BIU stuff and omitting > internal-only interfaces). I thought about that, but then on what kind of measurements? mm, or inches? , we could add extension methods to wxPoint and wxSize to allow conversion from/to measurements, now we have FromMM(xx) ToMM(xx) , etc. > > As an example: do you *really* want to expose to the python users > functions like EnsureTextCtrlWidth, ProcessExecute or the drawing > functions? Well, that's was really weighted when we started the scripting implementation, we could "clone" all our exposed classes interfaces in the .i files, or we could just suck up all the header files of any interest to us. This way we: * Save an awful amount of man/hours. * The moment a class is updated in the .h with new (public) methods it gets updated on the python side at compilation time, no human rework needed. But: * We cannot manually document (with pydoc style) the classes and methods. * We expose things we wouldn't like too Anyway, this last unwanted "feature" could be avoided with the use of "ignore" clauses into the .i swig files, that could make a lot of sense. Also we have the #ifdef SWIG that Dick told us about > > IMHO python classes should be tinked about and defined separately... It > doesn't seem a good idea to expose the innards of pcbnew in this way, to > me... If we did it that way, we wouldn't have scripting now (I think) because it's a ton of work, even more when I'm still learning about KiCAD internals, which is huge!! :) The day we have time enough, if we find the benefit interesting enough we could do it just rewriting the .i files (I think it's the only change we might need), but , it would be a long term maintenance cost (compared to the drawbacks of over-exposing). Cheers :-) Mike, > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo http://www.nbee.es +34 636 52 25 69 skype: ajoajoajo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
