[MOAB-dev] Tag Heaers not installed?

[Anthony Scopatz]

Sorry, I think I was misunderstanding what type the API accepted originally.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:47 PM Timothy Tautges <
timothy.tautges at cd-adapco.com> wrote:

> I think that's guaranteed to be sizeof (EntityHandle); there's also a cpp
> variable for that, but can't recall the name.
> On Aug 4, 2015 6:56 PM, "Anthony Scopatz" <scopatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The problem is that right now Tag is forward declared as either
>>
>> typedef TagInfo* Tag; // or
>> typedef struct TagInfo* Tag;
>>
>> However, the Core::tag_get_handle() member function takes a Tag& as one
>> of its output arguments.  To handle this - even in an opaque way - we need
>> to know the sizeof(TagInfo) so that we can malloc() enough space for it.
>>
>> If there is another way to get the size of TagInfo or to get a pointer to
>> a new TagInfo instance through the public interface, please let us know!
>> Including this header file, though, also lets us have a more direct
>> interface to Tags themselves, which I argue is more pythonic.
>>
>> Be Well
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:22 PM Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick,
>>>
>>> Almost all of the queries on a Tag can be directed through the
>>> Interface APIs. Is there something that you need from the Python layer
>>> that is not exposed through Interface ? What is the specific use case
>>> that requires access to TagInfo.hpp ?
>>>
>>> Vijay
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Timothy Tautges
>>> <timothy.tautges at cd-adapco.com> wrote:
>>> > Those details aren't meant to be visible across the API.
>>> >
>>> > On Aug 4, 2015 2:34 PM, "Patrick Shriwise" <shriwise at wisc.edu> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> Anthony and I are down here at NCSA working on a python interface to
>>> some
>>> >> of MOAB's more basic functionality for use in yt. We're currently
>>> wrapping a
>>> >> bunch of the MOAB classes/functions but we're wondering why arent the
>>> >> TagInfo.hpp and related files aren't included in the install?
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >>
>>> >> Patrick
>>>
>>
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