[Insight-users] How do you set up scripting of ITK, VTK and KWWidgets?

[Gaetan Lehmann]

On Friday 03 March 2006 20:49, Kent Williams wrote:
> Honestly I'd rather stay with ITK's included tcl wrapping, because my
> organization is a contributing member of the Insight Consortium. 

It will be submitted to the insight journal (I hope soon) and hopefully 
integrated to InsightApplication. Once it will be done, I can see no reason 
to keep the current wrapping system in the ITK tree.
Using the current wrappers for prototyping become quickly frustrating - I 
think (but not hope) you'll see that by yourself soon :-)

> But I 
> will at least build it and see what it's like.

Great :-)

>
> Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >You will not be able to prototype with the current ITK wrapper - it is
> > just to limited for that, I think mainly because it have been developed
> > only for some specific applications.
> >With Zach, we are working for some time on a refactor of the wrapper which
> >should make prototyping possible in TCL - I already use it daily for
> >prototyping in python. We are not TCL developers, and so haven't been able
> > to test it with TCL.
> >Would you agree to test it ?
> >
> >Everything is already available at
> >
> >  http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/WrapITK/WrapITK.tar.gz
> >
> >or directly with darcs (http://www.darcs.net)
> >
> >  darcs get --partial http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/
> >
> >Gaetan
> >
> >On Friday 03 March 2006 19:28, Kent Williams wrote:
> >>I would like to do some rapid prototyping using TCL scripts, using the
> >>ITK, VTK, and KWWidgets toolkits together.
> >>
> >>I've been spelunking mailing list archives, Kitware WIKIs, and such,
> >>without finding any concise description of the best way to go about
> >>doing this.  My understanding so far is that I will need:
> >>
> >>1. ITK -- wrapped for TCL
> >>2. VTK -- wrapped for TCL
> >>3. KWWidgets -- wrapped for TCL
> >>4. ConnectVTKITK
> >>
> >>What's not clear is how I'd go about putting these together in the TCL
> >>environment -- can they all be loaded as packages? What environment
> >>variables determine how the packages are found?
> >>
> >>There appear to be various examples that come with the various toolkits
> >>that A) use VTK and ITK together or B) use VTK and KWWidgets together,
> >>but nothing that closes the circle.
> >>I know that Slicer is an application that essentially does this, but
> >>unless I'm missing something, it's never explained how it works. It's
> >>embarrassing to have to ask, since I've been contributing code to
> >>Insight for the past few years, but I've had my blinders on and learned
> >>mostly about my little corner of ITK.
> >>
> >>Does anyone want to give it a go, or point me to an example that makes
> >>it clear how to get everything configured together?
> >>
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