[Paraview] Qt 4.6 Cocoa Strangeness with ParaView 3.6.2

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

We've started supporting Cocoa only with ParaView CVS (and in future
with 3.8). Can you see if you can reproduce the issue with CVS? There
have been several fixes to CVS to work with Cocoa.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> I'll state up front that I know 3.6.2 only officially supports Qt 4.3.x but
> I'll go ahead with my bug report/question any ways.
>
>  So I built Qt 4.6.1 with Cocoa (OS X) and then compiled ParaView 3.6.2 from
> source using shared libraries. Everything compiles fine. ParaView then
> launches fine. I setup up some sort of pipeline (Does not matter what) then
> the strangeness happens. For example, load up a Box source, then glyph it.
>
>  Now, click on the "Glyph1" to activate it. Now, click on the Display tab to
> adjust some parameter (Again, does not matter what). Now Click back on the
> "Box1" in the Pipeline Browser. Now try to click on the "Properties" or
> "Information" tabs. What happens is that the Object inspector windows goes
> blank and the Pipeline Browser elements all become un-selected.
>
>  It seems the only way to select a new element in the Pipeline browser and
> have it "stick" to to actually double-click on a pipeline browser element.
> Then you can select something in the "Object Inspector" area.
>
>  If I build with Qt 4.6.1 with Carbon none of this happens. I will assume
> that this is a problem with Qt itself since switching to Qt/Carbon seems to
> fix the problem. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. I can
> reproduce it on a Mac Pro (Xeon 5500 with ATI 4870) and a MacBook Pro with
> nVidea 8600m graphics.
>
>  What I have not tried is to go back to Qt 4.5.3 Cocoa/Carbon and try those
> to see if they work/don't work.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
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