[Ves] Android Kiwiviewer: change KiwiGlSurfaceView background color

Tue May 20 13:59:27 EDT 2014

Hi Aashish, the branch is named 'swig' on the stage remote.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> If the method is not exposed at the Java level, we can add that easily
> (manually for now) ..
>
> @Pat, If you can share your swig branch with us, that would be great. I
> have done swig-python wrapping in the past and may be able to help.
>
> - Aashish
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Wright James (NHS Greater Glasgow &
> Clyde) <jamie.wright at nhs.net> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Pat and Aashish,
>>
>> Thanks for your help in this. The task I'm trying to achieve is porting
>> some VTK pipelines to visualise medical data that I have written in python
>> onto an Android application for remote and portable viewing. Not being a
>> programmer by trade, and not being able to work on this full time I am
>> stretching the limits of my coding abilities trying to integrate the c++
>> api into the Android framework. I may have to go back and learn about Java
>> JNI programming and openGL ES before I can achieve my aims.
>>
>> Thanks for developing the VES and Kiwi libraries, I am sure they will
>> very useful in the future
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> Jamie Wright | Clinical Scientist | Nuclear Medicine
>> jamie.wright at nhs.net
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* Pat Marion [james.patrick.marion at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 19 May 2014 21:01
>>
>> *To:* Wright James (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
>> *Cc:* Aashish Chaudhary; ves at public.kitware.com
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Ves] Android Kiwiviewer: change KiwiGlSurfaceView
>> background color
>>
>>   Hi Jamie,
>>
>>  Ideally, the entire kiwi c++ api would be available to you to call
>> directly from the java files.  The idea would be to use a tool like Swig to
>> automatically generate java bindings.  I started a work-in-progress branch
>> that explored using Swig to generate java and python bindings to Kiwi, but
>> that work was not completed.  So for now, you must manually extend
>> KiwiNative.java and KiwiNative.cpp to hand-write jni interface methods.  So
>> you could do that, write a new jni interface, to set the background color
>> from Java.  Or you could set the background color one time just in the
>> setupGraphics() method of KiwiNative.cpp.  I guess I'd recommend going the
>> jni route for most flexibility.  The jni methods are defined in
>> KiwiNative.cpp and in KiwiNative.java.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Wright James (NHS Greater Glasgow &
>> Clyde) <jamie.wright at nhs.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I had seen that method but I couldn't see where it was actually used to
>>> set the blue background.
>>>
>>> When using the vesKiwi cpp files is the idea to access them through the
>>> JNI by calling them in KiwiNative.java and using them in other .java files?
>>> Or should I be editing the vesKiwi*.cpp files directly and rebuilding
>>> kiwiviewer each time? Apologies if this is explained on the wiki or
>>> elsewhere but I haven't been able to Google any results
>>>
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Aashish Chaudhary [aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com]
>>> Sent: 19 May 2014 17:01
>>> To: Wright James (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
>>> Cc: ves at public.kitware.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Ves] Android Kiwiviewer: change KiwiGlSurfaceView
>>> background color
>>>
>>> Have a look at the vesKiwiBaseApp.h and this method: setBackgroundColor.
>>>
>>> Let me know if this helps.
>>>
>>> - Aashish
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Wright James (NHS Greater Glasgow &
>>> Clyde) <jamie.wright at nhs.net<mailto:jamie.wright at nhs.net>> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to integrate VES into an Android application using the
>>> Kiwiviewer example application as a start. At present the default
>>> background color in the GlSurfaceView in this application is light blue.
>>> How can I change this to a different color? Apologies if this is an easy
>>> question but it's got me stumped.
>>>
>>> thanks, Jamie
>>>
>>>
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