[Paraview] ParaView 3.7 from cvs on Mac OS X, x86_64, Qt 4.5.3 w/Cocoa

[Chris Kees]

Hi all,

Just to add a data point, I compiled dbus and Qt 4.5.3 from source on  
OS X 10.5.8(x86_64) and still have greyed out filters in PV 3.7. I'm  
interested in what the enhancements do as well.

Chris
On Oct 30, 2009, at 5:47 AM, Takuya OSHIMA wrote:

> Hi Michael & all,
>
> With OS X 10.6.1 + Qt 4.5.3/Cocoa/x86_64 + PV 3.7 builds I've run into
> either the occasional greyed out filters when launched in-place
> without make install or crashes at startup after make install. So I
> tried your ParaView3-enhancements
> ( http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-October/ 
> 014246.html )
> and indeed it works perfectly at least in builtin server mode after
> running make install (really great). I wonder what is the secret about
> your "enhancements"?
>
> Takuya
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
> From: Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] ParaView 3.7 from cvs on Mac OS X, x86_64,  
> Qt 4.5.3 w/Cocoa
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:47:31 +0100
>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've noticed that the filters menu is greyed out after loading a  
>>> valid
>>> data set on the version of paraview I built yesterday from cvs (also
>>> updated yesterday).  I have the same version of paraview built on an
>>> i386 mac using the Qt SDK instead of the Cocoa 32/64  framework, and
>>> it does not have this problem. Also, the filters appear to work  
>>> (e.g.
>>> if I hit the isosurface button the filter runs correctly).  Any idea
>>> what is happening here? I believe somebody mentioned that the QtDBus
>>> framework is messed up in the Qt Cocoa package, maybe I just need to
>>> build Qt from source.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>
>>
>> Hmm, I built it as a x86_64 binary with Qt-Cocoa 4.5.3 on OS X 10.6
>> and I don't see this issue. Also, my i386/ppc universal binary built
>> against the 10.5 SDK doesn't show this.
>>
>> Michael
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