python, Qt and HOOPS 3D

[Karl G. Merkley]

HOOPS is a 3D graphics engine built on top of OpenGL.
They provide a Qt widget that is derived from QWidget
called HQWidget.  In many ways this widget is analagous
to QGL widget but with high level functions like orbit_camera().
See http://www.hoops3d.com/downloads/linux/linux.htm for the
details including a free linux version.

So, what I want to do is create a wrapper for this HQWidget
so that I can create one in python.

I've switched from swig to sip, but I'm still struggling with
figuring it out.  Any pointers would be appreciated!

	Karl
Jim wrote:
> Karl G. Merkley wrote:
> 
>> I am looking for the python bindings for the HOOPS-Qt widget.
>> Has anybody done this?  Is anyone willing to share?  If not
>> does someone have any pointers on how to go about doing this?
> 
> 
>> I've been playing around with swig but haven't had any luck making
>> it work yet.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with HOOPS-Qt at all, so this is somewhat
> speculative. There is a complete set of Python bindings
> for PyQt (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk) using
> sip. If HOOPS-Qt depends on other Qt widgets, this would
> probably be your best starting point, as you can import
> the bindings for the rest of Qt and wouldn't have to
> redo them.
> 
> There isn't any complete documentation for doing bindings
> with sip. I'm working on some stuff to make sip bindings
> easier to do (along with docs hopefully), but it'll be
> a while before I have anything to release (if ever). If
> HOOPS-Qt isn't an extremely large set of files, you can
> use PyQt or PyKDE as examples of how to do bindings with
> sip manually.
> 
> You can get help with sip and PyQt on the PyKDE mailing
> list at:
> 
> http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
> 
> If you're interested, email me directly and I'll try to give
> you some more info.
> 
> 
> Jim
>