Pointer Depth Attribute

The pointerDepth attribute is only used when modeling C structures that will be published by a publisher that supports the ctypes interface. This attribute is only valid when pointer="true" is also specified. pointerDepth will indicate how many levels deep the pointer is (e.g. void** p is 2). Default is 1.

See also: pointer

Example XML:

<Block name="HelloWorld" pointer="true" pointerDepth="3">
  <String value="Hello world!" />
</Block>

Would result in the following ctypes code:

class CustomStructure(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [ ("HelloWorld", c_char_p) ]

block = CustomStructure()
block["HelloWorld"] = c_char_p("Hello world!")

result = POINTER(POINTER(POINTER(block)))