… to extend HOM? Is it depracated? Is inlineCPP the only method we should use?

HOMextendLibrary is still supported, but it is much more cumbersome to use than inlinecpp. For example, getting the creation time with inlinecpp is very little code (untested code below):

>>> inlinecpp.extendClass(hou.Node, “cpp_node_methods”, function_sources=[“”“
… int creationTime(OP_Node *node)
… {
… return (int)node->getStat().getCreateTime();
… }”“”])
…
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(hou.node(“/obj/geo1”).creationTime())
'Thu Apr 24 11:06:12 2014'


Libraries created with inlinecpp can be distributed to other machines, so those machines do not need to have to be able to compile the C++ code on demand. inlinecpp is also entirely written in Python, so you can inspect and modify it to better suit your needs, or suggest patches to us.

Since it's not depracated, can we get some more love to the documentation for it, for example:

- add more examples to HDK files
- add doc how to convert back from c++ to all python types
- and add explanation of those “s” “si” and other flags that we pass to the PY_PyArg_ParseTuple() to extract *args
- explain what PY_METH_VARARGS() means

Thanks!

mantragora
Since it's not depracated, can we get some more love to the documentation for it, for example:

- add more examples to HDK files
- add doc how to convert back from c++ to all python types
- and add explanation of those “s” “si” and other flags that we pass to the PY_PyArg_ParseTuple() to extract *args
- explain what PY_METH_VARARGS() means

Thanks!

A lot of these are described in the Python documentation. For example:

https://docs.python.org/release/1.5.1p1/ext/parseTuple.html [docs.python.org]

The PY library is a thin wrapper to the underlying Python API.

Hm… Thanks.

Still, I would love to know what PY_METH_VARARGS() and simila flags that we pass to PY_PyMethodDef means.


BTW. All the flags are supported from the link you posted or is it similar list to the one in inlineCPP docs?

mantragora
Hm… Thanks.

Still, I would love to know what PY_METH_VARARGS() and simila flags that we pass to PY_PyMethodDef means.


BTW. All the flags are supported from the link you posted or is it similar list to the one in inlineCPP docs?

Please see section 1.4 at https://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html [docs.python.org]

Yay, more reading, thanks!

Now there is only this part of the puzzle left -> http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&p=146680#146680 [sidefx.com]