[Pyrex] Re: C++, references, deref a pointer...

[John Sutherland]

<Sorry for being non-threaded.. My procmail rules seem to have eaten  
your response..>

 >> Approx line 1576 was:
 >> if entry.is_variable or entry.is_cmethod:
 >> to
 >> if entry.is_variable or entry.is_cmethod or entry.is_cfunction:
 >>
 >I do not understand this change. An extension class attribute cannot
 >be a C function. It can be a C function pointer, which is just a C
 >attribute. See below.

I was actaully, trying to follow an older example you had done here:  
http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2005-November/001518.html

In order for that to work, I had to add that small hack.. As I said,  
it worked for me..

Of course, I'd much rather do things without a hack... Switching to  
function pointers, and that [0] trick to get the reference (duh, I  
should have thought of that..), presented another problem..

(I solved it, just presenting for others to who follow later..)

I have a class with overridden methods... The function pointer method  
didn't seem to let me "name" the functions that its calls, like I was  
doing with my hacked version..

For example, I was doing this:

	void (*test1) "test" (int)
	void (*test2) "test" (float)

Gives me: Syntax error in C variable declaration..

I then tried:

	void (*test1 "test") (int)
	void (*test2 "test") (float)

Which seems to work, though it didn't seem obvious to me at first...  
This allows me to do this :

cdef class Test	
	def __init__(self):
		self.thisptr = TestFactory()
	def test1(self,i):
		self.thisptr.test1(i)
	def test2(self,a,b):
		self.thisptr.test2(a,b)

I'm sure there's other ways, but this is how *i* solved it for now :)

Thanks again!