[vtk-developers] deprecate vtkInteractorStyleTrackball

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "SB" == Sebastien BARRE <sebastien.barre at kitware.com> writes:

    SB> I'll commit a new round of interactor-styles clean-up tonite
    SB> or tomorrow.
    >>  I'm confused and dont understand what you mean.

    SB> First of all, I do not see my email in the vtk dev list, so I
    SB> hope I did not just send it to you.

You did send it to vtk-devel:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2002-April/001386.html

    >> Do you mean that the trackball style itself is deprecated or
    >> will you rework the trackball code so that it is written
    >> differently?

    SB> Neither of these, sorry.  The trackball style are
    SB> vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera and
    SB> vtkInteractorStyleTrackballActor. They are used and driven (as
    SB> well as the joystick mode) by vtkInteractorStyleSwitch.

    SB> vtkInteractorStyleTrackball is in fact both
    SB> vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera and
    SB> vtkInteractorStyleTrackballActor, i.e. duplicated code
    SB> (i.e. it was written before, then split into the two other
    SB> one, if I remember correctly), etc.

Ah, ok.  So you will remove the unnecessary trackball code.  Thanks.

If possible could you please tell us if there are other significant
changes that you have made that conflict with Bill Hoffman's initial
commit?  He mailed a complete Tk example of how to bind the various
things and based on that I have 3 Python widgets ready (for pyGtk,
wxPython and Tkinter).  So, if you could tell us whats new or what has
changed it will make life easier.

Also, when I commit the Python widgets I'm committing them separately
and not rewriting the existing widgets.  I mentioned this here:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2002-April/001303.html

I answered David and others objections here:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2002-April/001310.html

Since no one said anything after that I'm going ahead with my original
proposal (when the dashboard is clean enough for new commits).  Please
holler if you have serious complaints. :)

Thanks.
prabhu