[vtk-developers] Python Tk widgets broken!

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi David and Prabhu,

I am working on this. Should be fixed later today.

			Andy

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 11:26, David Gobbi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just updated my VTK CVS tree (after ages!), rebuilt and find that
> > the Python Tk widgets are broken, badly.  Here is what I get.
> >
> > $ cd Wrapping/Python/vtk/tk
> > $ python vtkTkRenderWidget.py
> > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  57
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  60
> >
> > $ python vtkTkRenderWindowInteractor.py
> > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  57
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  60
> >
> > Which is pretty nasty.
> >
> > I deleted Rendering/vtkTkWidgetsInit.o and libvtkRenderingPython*.so
> > and rebuilt and it still does not work.  From what I can tell from the
> > CVS logs these two are the only relevant entries for
> > Rendering/vtkTkWidgetsInit.cxx
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.17
> > date: 2004/01/10 18:07:34;  author: barre;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
> > try to fix warnings
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.16
> > date: 2004/01/08 16:53:24;  author: hoffman;  state: Exp;  lines: +13 -11
> > BUG: make sure tk has been initialized before calling tk functions
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > I'm sorry I can't offer to fix the bug since I'm swamped with work
> > right now.  Could someone please take a look?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > prabhu
> 
> Hi Prabhu,
> 
> I had the same problem, the widgets aren't broken, it's just a build
> dependency problem.
> 
> Touch vtkTkRenderWidgetPython.cxx and rebuild, then your problem should
> be gone.
> 
> Unfortunately vtkTkRenderWidgetPython.o is not re-built when
> vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx is modified.  I don't know if there is any
> way to enforce the dependency in CMake.
> 
>  - David
> 
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