Lots of similar properties in Ptr classes

[flacjacket]

Lots of similar properties in Ptr classes

[m-col]

A downside of this (as implemented above) is it removes type checking from the values.

[flacjacket]

Looking at this reminds me of David Beazley's talk on metaprogramming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiWg5jSoZI

I feel like there is definitely something that we could do here to simplify some of the basic properties around built-in types. It may be possible to type annotate them using some form of generics where the method to build the property would also define the types.

Maybe, it could be even simpler if we did something like:

class OutputMode(Ptr):
    def __init__(self, ptr) -> None:
        self._ptr = ptr

    width: int = Ptr._ptr_property("width")
    height: int = Ptr._ptr_property("height")
    refresh: int = Ptr._ptr_property("refresh")
    preferred: int = Ptr._ptr_property("preferred")

I'm not sure which is able to work better with mypy and if that is sufficient for this.