On 8 Aug 2006 02:28:31 -0700, Qun Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am a beginner on cross language development. My problem at hand is to > build a python interface for a C++ application built on top of a 3D > game engine. The purpose of this python interface is providing a > convenient scripting toolkit for the application.
As for me, Boost.Python is the way to go. Fortunately you are not the first one, and I hope not the last one :-) : http://language-binding.net/pyplusplus/quotes.html#who-is-using-pyplusplus 1. Python-OGRE * http://lakin.weckers.net/index_ogre_python.html * http://tinyurl.com/mvj8d 2. http://cgkit.sourceforge.net/ - contains Python bindings for Maya C++ SDK 3. PyOpenSG - https://realityforge.vrsource.org/view/PyOpenSG/WebHome The goal of PyOpenSG is to provide python bindings for the OpenSG scene graph. > Since the main program is still going to be the C++ application, I > guess we need to embedding the python scripts in the C++ code. Boost.Python is the only tool that provides complete functionality( extending and embedding ). Also I think cgkit is dealing with the problem too. > But for this to work, the python code needs to know the Player class, > is it right? Right. Does that mean I need to build a python wrapper class for > Player and "import Player" in the python code? But because this > application is built on top of a game engine, Player class inherits > many classes from there, I cannot possibly wrapping them all, right? It depends on how much functionality you want to export. > Also, some global objects are probably needed in this code of adding > players, how can the python code access them? Boost.Python provides the functionality you need. > Btw, if you can point me to any source code of non-trivial projects > utilizing SWIG/Boost.Python, that would be very helpful. I found the > examples on the tutorials are far too simple. Those are tutorials, they should be simple, right :-) ? -- Roman Yakovenko C++ Python language binding http://www.language-binding.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
