[vtk-developers] Changes to vtkRenderViewBase && derived classes - interactors and render windows

[Bill Lorensen]

I think these compile errors in the wiki examples appeared after your checkin?
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?buildid=743153

Here is the code:
http://gitorious.org/vtkwikiexamples/wikiexamples/blobs/master/Cxx/Views/RenderViewBase.cxx

Bill

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to let you know that I just merged a small topic branch that
> changes the behavior of vtkRenderViewBase (and the derived vtkRenderView,
> vtkContextView, etc). This is the result of some time Utkarsh and I spent
> looking at the window popping out problem yesterday afternoon, and I am
> pleased to report that you can now set the window and interactor in whatever
> order you want!
> I would appreciate feedback from any users of these classes, especially if
> it broke any existing behavior. In order to get interaction working
> correctly with a QVTKWidget it is still necessary to set window/interactor,
> but the sequence is no longer important. A simple view invocation in the
> tests still works as expected, but we have shifted responsibility for
> instantiating an interactor style to the subclasses.
> This does raise the question of whether a vtkRenderView3D, or something
> general like that might be appropriate. It would be quite similar to the
> vtkContextView, but would set up more appropriate interactors for a general
> 3D scene, possibly with an enum as in the vtkRenderView case. Lots of thanks
> to Utkarsh and Jeff Baumes for working on this with me - I think we have a
> good general solution now.
> Marcus
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