[Ves] Using Ipad 5.1 Simulator

[Thiago Tavares Magalhães]

So I'll try to start my studies using Xcode.
I'll look up some tutorials on GLKit and maybe I'll find something about iOS
projects in XCode.

Thanks for listening,
Thiago Tavares

2012/11/12 Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com>

> I'm afraid there's no such thing as a main.cxx example for iOS.  You can't
> compile a main.cxx file to produce an iOS program using VES.  You have to
> build a complete iOS app, and iOS apps require some code in Objective-C and
> several resource files.  You have to use XCode to generate a new iOS
> project, or copy the existing Kiwi project.
>
> Your iOS app has to contain a GKLView in order to initialize the rendering
> context for VES.  If you're not already familiar with GLKit in iOS, you
> should try following some of the online tutorials for GLKit.  After you
> have some familiarity with GLKit, the best way to get started is to create
> a new project in XCode and select File -> New Project and then choose
> OpenGL Game as the base project template.  Then, you have to add VTK and
> VES library and include search paths to the XCode project, this can be a
> tricky step.  In the next release of VES we will have a build step that
> creates frameworks which greatly simplify using VTK and VES in XCode.
> We'll also have an example using GLKit, the current release version of Kiwi
> uses EAGLView because it was developed before Apple had released GLKit.  If
> you've never created an iOS project from scratch, you might find it easiest
> to just copy the existing Kiwi project and use that as a template.  Just
> make sure you modify the xcconfig file to set the currect path locations.
>
> Pat
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Thiago Tavares Magalhães <
> ttavaresm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> A short time since I sent my last question, sorry for my insistence, but
>> I'm still new to VES.
>>
>> I want to develop a simple example using VES, but on a common text editor
>> , such as gedit, for example, and compiling with cmake.
>> I've specified the directory VES (already installed) in CMAkeList. My
>> CMakeList is thus:
>>
>> / / ----------------------------------- / / -----------
>> ------------------------ / /
>> cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8)
>>
>> PROJECT (Step1)
>>
>> set (CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT iphoneos4.3)
>> set (CMAKE_XCODE_EFFECTIVE_PLATFORMS "-iPhoneOS;-iphonesimulator")
>>
>> include_directories ($ CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR {})
>>
>> Find_package (VES REQUIRED)
>> Include_directories ($ VES_INCLUDE_DIRS {})
>>
>> Find_package (VTK REQUIRED)
>> INCLUDE ($ {} VTK_USE_FILE)
>>
>> ADD_EXECUTABLE (EsferaMalhaDeArestas .. / main.cxx)
>> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (EsferaMalhaDeArestas vtkRendering)
>> / / ----------------------------------- / / -----------
>> ------------------------ / /
>>
>> How do I run the application within that iPadSimulator? Could someone show
>> me a code example that does something very simple, such as instantiating
>> a coneSource and display it on the screen of iPadSimulator, please?
>>
>> I promise I'll give a reasonable space of time between this and my next
>> question.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Thiago
>>
>> --
>> Thiago Tavares Magalhães <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1989532473555107>
>> Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação de Petrópolis
>> - *FAETERJ*
>> Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica -* LNCC*
>>
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>


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Thiago Tavares Magalhães <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1989532473555107>
Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação de Petrópolis - *
FAETERJ*
Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica -* LNCC*
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