[vtk-developers] GUISupport in vtkRendering

[David E DeMarle]

Why don't we just decouple the VTK_USE_QT in VTK/Rendering/CMakeLists
from the higher level one?

That way you can turn it on in the one kit and keep it off in Rendering.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, having Rendering depend on Qt is bad.  In fact, before you
> mentioned it, I didn't even know this was the case.  Following what
> Berk said, the library should be called "vtkQt" instead of "vtkQtGUI".
> There's a lot more going on in Qt than just GUI.
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> We started (well, sort of) a project aimed at restructuring VTK for
>> the purpose of better modularization. This would definitely be one of
>> the things to address there. One of my objectives is to get rid of
>> changes to library contents based on configuration options. In my
>> opinion, if I turn on an option, I should get a new library rather
>> than an existing library with more classes. Btw, I suspect that the Qt
>> dependency in Rendering is for font rendering so I don't think that
>> libvtkGUI would be appropriate.
>>
>> -ber
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:43 PM, tom fogal <tfogal at sci.utah.edu> wrote:
>>> We were investigating switching to the Qt stuff in GUISupport/ instead
>>> of some no-longer-maintained code that we hack every now and again to
>>> keep working.
>>>
>>> However it seems when one enables this, Qt gets linked into
>>> libvtkRendering.so.  We have some programs that do rendering without a
>>> GUI, and we are not willing to link in Qt or even have it as a build
>>> dependency for that part of our software.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on a `libvtkGUI.so' or similar library?
>>>
>>> -tom
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