Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Creating a custom vector source

[Trond Danielsen]

2007/1/24, Eric Blossom <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:26:51PM +0100, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > hope this is not a silly question: Is it possible to subclass
> > gr_vector_source to create a custom vector source? I already have the
> > C code to create my vector.
> >
> > --
> > Trond Danielsen
>
> Although this is possible, I don't think it's what you want.  For
> example, the vector source has an instance variable that is of the
> type of the vector.  I suspect that your derived class would ignore
> that and add another instance variable.
>
> It's probably simpler just to inherit from gr_sync_block.
>
> In truth, with regard to gr_vector_source_* we use an ad hoc code
> generation system to generate all of these.   We'd use C++ templates,
> but that wouldn't help us with the .i file.
>
> Eric

Thanks for your reply. I will look into it a bit further, maybe I will
just convert the code generator code to python or copy some of the
code from gr_vector_source.
--
Trond Danielsen