[vtk-developers] Tcl rendering tests and hangs

[Andrew Maclean]

I really have no idea! However generally it has worked in Windows.
I don't think that pressing Q or E has worked inLinux for a long time too.

Andrew


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Goodwin Lawlor <
goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After stepping through the code in vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor, it
> seemed that since Tcl doesn't use the "Start" method to get the event loop
> moving, there was no callback fired on pressing E,e,Q,q.
>
> I've a topic here http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/459 that adds an
> ExitEvent callback when an vtkRenderWindowInteractor is created in Tcl.
>
> I'm wondering now though how it ever worked before on win32?
>
> Goodwin
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Goodwin Lawlor <
> goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's great. I've noticed too that pressing the "e" key no longer exists
>> tcl. I'll debug that as soon as I can.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Andrew Maclean <
>> andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Ok. As a matter of interest should  VTKRENDERINGOPENGL_EXPORT be
>>> preferred over VTK_EXPORT?
>>>
>>> Marcus, With respect to OutlineCornerFilter, this will fix the problem:
>>> #include "vtkFiltersSourcesModule.h" // For export macro
>>> //#include "vtkFiltersGeneralModule.h" // For export macro
>>> It is just that the wrong header was included.
>>>
>>> Guess what! After those changes the build works for Windows, except for
>>> vtkFiltersHyperTreeCxxTests.
>>> Tcl is working, however, the issue of being unable to close the TCL
>>> render window still exists.
>>> Python works Ok too.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>  Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Goodwin Lawlor <
>>> goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Missed his patch... both VTK_EXPORT and VTKRENDERINGOPENGL_EXPORT
>>>> resolve to the same: declspec(dllexport) (on  windows) so if it doesn' t
>>>> work for you, there's no point making that change anyway.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Andrew Maclean <
>>>> andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The patch from Marcus is using VTK_EXPORT. I am building now and will
>>>>> see if it works. If not I'll change VTK_EXPORT
>>>>> to  VTKRENDERINGOPENGL_EXPORT
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Goodwin Lawlor <
>>>>> goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I just rebased the tcl static topic and I see the problem - up until
>>>>>> a couple of days ago VTK_RENDERING_EXPORT was being defined in
>>>>>> vtkWin32Header.h but no longer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe this commit on Friday is the cause:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=e545699df74c1364dca55d036096ae8e1f9457a4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and VTK_RENDERING_EXPORT in vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor.cxx should
>>>>>> be changed to VTKRENDERINGOPENGL_EXPORT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's an unusual case to see that definition in a cxx file...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Goodwin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Goodwin Lawlor <
>>>>>> goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can see the same issue you're having on cdash:
>>>>>>> http://open.cdash.org/viewBuildError.php?buildid=2196895
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll keep looking...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Goodwin
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
>>>>>>> marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Andrew Maclean
>>>>>>>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> > Hi Goodwin, Marcus
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > I just built for Windows and Linux and there are some issues:
>>>>>>>> > Windows:
>>>>>>>> >   1) vtkFIltersSourcesPython-6.0.dll is not built. This is due to
>>>>>>>> unresolved
>>>>>>>> > externals in the linking. Similarly for
>>>>>>>>  vtkFIltersSourcesTCL-6.0.dll
>>>>>>>> >   2) VTK_RENDERING_EXPORT is undefined so
>>>>>>>> vtkWin32RenderWindowIntteractor is
>>>>>>>> > not built (line 42) and there is a different linkage for
>>>>>>>> vtkHandleMessage in
>>>>>>>> > this file (line85).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just realized I missed this in the CDash at Home submissions. I
>>>>>>>> have a
>>>>>>>> patch proposal here that should fix that,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/433/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> >   3) vtkOutlineCornerFilter is not built due to unresolved
>>>>>>>> external symbols.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That is a new move today, I will take another look.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Linux:
>>>>>>>> >   Everything built Ok however I still get a blank white screen
>>>>>>>> when running
>>>>>>>> > the Tcl examples. I could be missing something in my setup
>>>>>>>> because I had to
>>>>>>>> > revert to Ubuntu 10.04 as the latest Nvidia upgrades (295)
>>>>>>>>  destroyed
>>>>>>>> > my system. I have a GTS8800 card which is incompatible with the
>>>>>>>> NVidia
>>>>>>>> > updates.
>>>>>>>> >   On second thoughts the Python scripts run Ok so all the OpenGL
>>>>>>>> stuff is
>>>>>>>> > there.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> Can you list the Tcl tests failing? Quite a few Tcl tests were
>>>>>>>> added,
>>>>>>>> I can take a closer look at tonight's dashboards.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Marcus
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ___________________________________________
>>>>> Andrew J. P. Maclean
>>>>>
>>>>> ___________________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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