[C++-sig] Pyste bug: protected virtual methods

[Nicodemus]

Niall Douglas wrote:

>Ok, there's FXWindow which provides a virtual method GetClass() but 
>it's protected so pyste doesn't wrap it in the definition for 
>FXWindow.
>
>However, FXMainWindow inherits off FXWindow and in 
>FXMainWindow_Wrapper there's an override for GetClass()! Needless to 
>say, because python doesn't know of GetClass it can't call the 
>default method :(
>
>Solution: Don't generate items in X_Wrapper unless they're public. 
>This is overkill however, because technically protected methods 
>should be available to python if a python class inherits off it.
>

Another solution would be to expose the protected members, but that 
would make them public in Python. I think this solution is more 
flexible, since the purpose of a protected method is to allow subclasses 
to call it... and the user can always rename the methods to prepend an 
"_", following Python's convention. What do you think?

Regards,
Nicodemus.