[vtk-developers] ANN: Deprecation/removal of Qt-based charts in VTK

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 17:23:01 EDT 2010


Marcus,

Were these classes ever part of a VTK release? If not, I don't see a
problem. If they were part of a release, then we have do deal with
backward compatibility.

Bill

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Qt charts are being deprecated and removed from VTK. They are no longer
> being used in ParaView, and have been replaced by the new OpenGL based charts
> in VTK. The Qt charts have not been actively developed in quite some time now,
> but could be used outside of VTK if they are used in your applications. The
> next release will not have the Qt charts.
>
> The existing QVTKWidget etc will all continue to be used and supported, this
> just affects the Qt based charts/views. I intend to remove the code from VTK's
> master branch in Git on or after October 26 - please let me know before then
> if you have any specific concerns.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
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