Quite a few modifications were made to finish the API:
- Freestyle's SConscript was modified to catch all files within the intern/python directory, allowing integration of future shaders implemented in C++.
- the Operators class was ported, with a special care of making its methods static (using the METH_STATIC flag in the tp_methods method definitions)
- all of the type-checking functions [ BPy_[class name]_Check(obj) ] were changed to allow subclasses to be seen as that type too: instead on looking at the ob_type value, the PyObject_IsInstance function is used.
- all of the iterators can now retrieve the object pointed to by the operator, using the getObject() method. A directedViewEdge pair is returned as a list of the two elements in the pair.
- all of the style modules were copied to a style_modules_blender/ folder and were modified to use Freestyle as a Blender's submodule. IntegrationType and MediumType was also integrated (for example, changing MEAN to IntegrationType.MEAN).
Testing now begins. If everything works correctly, I'll move on to lib3ds removal right away.
Before porting other classes, I'll resolve the List (Python) <=> Iterator (C++) correspondence problem by implementing a general class appropriately suited for the task.
IMPORTANT: The setters functions' names were normalized due to constant confusion regarding capitalization. All the function names start with set... instead of Set.... This convention was changed all throughout Freestyle. To use Freestyle as an external renderer, the SWIG library MUST be regenerated.
So far, whenever a Python object is created from its corresponding C++ object, the input object reference is copied into a new object. Due to Freestyle's functions (especially regarding the way it is iterated), it is currently impossible to deal with a pointer-based Python object. It is not a real drawback, just an aspect to keep in mind.
From now on, when a set should be output (PySet_Type), it is given as a list (PyList_Type). The reason is that it doesn't really matter what we bring back to the Python interpreter. The set is guaranteed in memory on the C++ side.
For the CurvePoint class, the userdata variable is not yet ported (and will probably available as a list or a dictionary). The CurvePoint implementation works except for the initialization from other CurvePoints: somehow, the inner variables don't seem to be correctly handled. I do not know if it is a bug in Freestyle or if the CurvePoint object's state is correct for my test case. CurvePoint needs more testing.