[Ves] VesKiwiViwerApp

[Pat Marion]

Normally, you would use a GLKViewController in Xcode's Interface
Builder.  The iOS app in Apps/iOS/Kiwi was developed before iOS GLKit
was released, so Apps/iOS/Kiwi is now a slightly out dated example,
and it does not use GLKView or GLKViewController, it uses the
ES2Renderer as you saw.  For a more recent example, you could checkout
the midas-kiwi branch on the VES stage remote:

git remote add stage git://vtk.org:stage/VES.git
git fetch stage
git checkout -t stage/midas-kiwi

Then look in Apps/iOS/KiwiMidas.  This app uses a GLKView and
GLKViewController.  These are objects that you can create in Xcode's
Interface Builder, you can put them in a xib file.  Then you could see
the file MyGLKViewController.mm for an example of how the
GLKViewController calls vesKiwiViewerApp::render().

Pat



On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Thiago Tavares Magalhães
<ttavaresm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> I have studied the example in Android / iOS / Kiwi.
> I found that the class contains an object ES2Renderer VesKiwiViewerApp.
>
> Apparently you must first use the method BuilInDataSetName () to pass the
> name of a file to the object VesKiwiViewerApp and then uses the Render ()
> method.
> Is this correct?
>
> My biggest question is this: I want to create a graphical interface to the
> user via a xib file, ie using the click and drag it to xcode offers. As I
> relate the Render method (VesKiwiViewerApp) with one of the objects that
> xcode offers to drag me to the GUI? And that object would that be?
>
> (To better illustrate my question: Java I need an object PictureBox to
> display a jpeg on the screen, for example.)
>
> Thank you so much
> Thiago
>
>
> 2012/11/26 Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com>
>>
>> Have you tried building and running the KiwiViewer iOS app?  It is
>> located in Apps/iOS/Kiwi.  This is the best place to start, if you
>> want to try loading VTK files on the iphone.  You can run KiwiViewer
>> in the iOS simulator or on an iOS device.  Just open the Xcode project
>> and choose Run.  After you get it running, you can search through the
>> objective-c source files to find the location where it calls
>> loadDataSet(filename).
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Thiago Tavares Magalhães
>> <ttavaresm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Pat,
>> >
>> > I understand, thanks for the reply.
>> > I saw that some useful methods of this class would be the
>> > "builtinDatasetName", the "builtinDatasetFilename" and "loadDataSet" for
>> > example.
>> > However, how could I use these methods to render a VTK file on the
>> > screen?
>> > In other words, what xcode object can receive the output of these
>> > methods,
>> > so I can finally see a VTK file rendered on the screen of an iphone?
>> >
>> > Sorry for my inexperience.
>> > I promise that soon not bother much.
>> >
>> > hugs,
>> > Thiago
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/11/25 Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Thiago,
>> >>
>> >> The classes in src/ves implement the core rendering library for OpenGL
>> >> ES 2.0.  The classes in src/kiwi provide convenience for combining VTK
>> >> with VES rendering.  For example, vesKiwiDataLoader,
>> >> vesKiwiDataConversionTools, and the subclasses of
>> >> vesKiwiDataRepresentation.  The vesKiwiViewerApp ties together a lot
>> >> of these pieces and presents a single interface, so that it is easier
>> >> to implement an Android or iOS app in Java or Objective-C.  Your
>> >> Java/Objective-C code mostly just need to call methods on
>> >> vesKiwiViewerApp.  If you're designing a mobile app that is similar to
>> >> KiwiViewer, then you could reuse vesKiwiViewerApp, or derive from it
>> >> and extend the behavior.  But, if your app has unique requirements
>> >> that are different from those found in KiwiViewer, then you might not
>> >> want to use vesKiwiViewerApp at all, instead you could just directly
>> >> use the classes from VES and kiwi, or you could design your own app
>> >> interface class.  In that case, vesKiwiViewerApp can serve as an
>> >> example implementation.
>> >>
>> >> Pat
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2012/11/24 Thiago Tavares Magalhães <ttavaresm at gmail.com>:
>> >> > VesKiwiViwerApp
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thiago Tavares Magalhães
>> > Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação de Petrópolis
>> > -
>> > FAETERJ
>> > Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC
>> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thiago Tavares Magalhães
> Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação de Petrópolis -
> FAETERJ
> Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC
>