Re: Placing structs in cell arrays

[John Swensen]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 13-Feb-2007, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:
>
> | On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:22 -0500, John Swensen wrote:
> | > I am having trouble placing a struct/Octave_map in a cell array in C++.  
> | > Here is a snippet of my code.
> | > 
> | >         Matrix handleVec = args(0).matrix_value();
> | >         Cell retval(num_handles);
> | >         for( int i = 0 ; i < num_handles ; i++ )
> | >         {
> | >             handlePtr = handle::getHandle( (int)handleVec(i) );
> | >             Octave_map retvalItem = handlePtr->generateStruct();
> |               ^^^^^^^^^^
> | Is that a octave_struct ? you want to be using? ov-struct.h
>
> Octave_map is the underlying data type that is used by octave_struct,
> similar to the way Matrix is the data type used by octave_matrix, Cell
> is the data type used by octave_cell, etc.
>
> jwe
>
>   
So, I was just following the example in the DaCodaAlFine section of the 
wiki (http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaStruct) concerning using 
structures in C++.  Is this no longer the preferred method, or was it 
never the preferred method?

John