From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T09:58:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding virtual C++ method in Ruby

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:34:32 +0900, Tobias Grimm <listaccount@e-tobi.net> wrote:

> Now I would like to derive a C++-Class in a Ruby script, override a virtual
> method of the C++ class, return an instance of this new class back to C++ and
> then invoke the overridden method. I've no idea, if this is possible at all.

Please read up on SWIG's cross-language polymorphism feature (a.k.a.
the "directors" feature), described here:

    http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Ruby.html#n25

and here:

    http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.html#n32

Hope this helps,

Lyle