[Gdal-dev] Re: C# Geometry Classes?

[Tamas Szekeres]

Simon,

I could imagine a similar implementation like some of the gdal classes
use MajorObject as a base class. For example we could add:

%rename (Point) OGRPointShadow ;
class OGRPointShadow : public OGRGeometryShadow {

However we should still avoid exposing virtual methods, those might
not be equally supported by the various SWIG language implementations.

Best regards,

Tamas



2007/3/22, Simon Perkins <sy at perkins.net>:
> Howard Butler wrote:
> >   Kevin and I's first cut actually wrapped the C++ API, but we were
> > persuaded otherwise ;)
>
> Yes, I remember the discussion... And the C API seemed to make sense for
> GDAL, but now that I've started to use OGR as well, the C API seems a
> little limited compared to the C++ one. The Geometry hierarchy in OGR
> really cries out for an object oriented API, while GDAL doesn't seem to
> have quite the same needs.
>
> I wonder then, whether the OGR C API could do with some enhancements to
> provide functions that are more focused on specific geometry types?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sy
>
>