What Methods are Wrapped

Special Cases

• Enums are not wrapped, except for EventIds, which was done by hand.
• Static New() and Delete() are replaced by a public constructor and Dispose() methods. For example,
  vtk.vtkRenderWindow renWin = new vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
• PrintSelf is wrapped as void PrintSelf(TextWriter writer, int indent).
• Classes which have PrintSelf override ToString().
• Some non-vtk class arguments are not wrapped, like Request, istream, OffsetType, OffsetManager
• void (*func)(void*) is not wrapped, because the void* cannot be translated
• Protected methods are not wrapped.
• Methods named Dispose or Finalize are renamed to DisposeWrap and FinalizeWrap.

Reasons Not To Wrap a Method

• It is protected or private.
• It is surrounded by \\ BTX and \\ ETX in the header file. These markers ask the VTK lexer and parser not to consider the enclosed methods for wrapping. This is done because some methods cause failures in other parsers. The .NET wrappers can often handle these sections and certainly wouldn't crash, but removing the markers would break other wrappers.
• Two methods with the same signature will not be wrapped. For instance, vtkIdType may be 32 or 64 bits. If it is 32 bits, then its method signature will conflict with nearly identical methods accepting integers.

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