[vtk-developers] I'm new...

[Clinton Stimpson]

Quoting "Charl P. Botha" <cpbotha at gmail.com>:

> Dear Clint,
>
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:58:37 -0700, Clinton Stimpson
> <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:
> > I put a bug in the bug tracker (1279) and I just committed a fix for it
> > in cvs.  The bug is under someone else's name and my name is not on the
> > list of those that bugs can be assigned to.
>
> Thanks VERY much for doing this (on the Mac side).  I started work on
> this very long ago:
>
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2003-September/002564.html
>
> This means that in the next VTK release, most VTK-Widget set
> combinations can use the Finalize() call to disassociate
> vtkRenderWindows from the widget-set specific resources.  No more
> nasty WindowRemap() hacks.

Same reason I needed the Finalize method :)

>
> I would like to change the comments you've added for "Finalize"
> though.  They should be more specific, e.g.:
>
> // "Deinitialize" the rendering window.  This will shutdown all
> system-specific
> // resources.  After having called this, it should be possible to destroy
> // a window that was used for a SetWindowId() call without any ill
> effects.

Sounds good.

>
> We should also consider adding Initialize() as an abstract method to
> the vtkRenderWindow(), although that's not critical.

The thought occurred to me when I put Finalize in vtkRenderWindow.  But I
didn't see it critical (or necessary?) as the Start() method will give me
what I needed.

Thanks,
Clint

>
> Thanks,
> Charl
>
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>