[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[David E DeMarle]

That is an old school 32bit windows tcl interpreter with the tcl
wrapped vtk libs preloaded. Use it by typing in vtk tcl scripts there,
or just pass tcl scripts as filenames to that executable to run them
without the shell. (Back when I was a young lad, and when Will and
Bill were still old men, that was the _easy_ way to learn VTK. Ah
those were the days, even if we did have to walk five miles in the
snow to get to grad school.)

My plan for this release is to keep it the same as before. I hope to
find the time to make and post the vtkpython equivalent of that
executable for mac, linux and windows, but I am not going to hold up
the release release for them.

For 6.0 we at least want the python exes, will probably drop the tcl
exe, and will try to make a proper SDK so that you don't need to
compile vtk to make c++ apps that use it.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a related note, every Windows user I have suggested VTK to has gone
> to this page:
> http://vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latest2
>
> and been extremely confused about what they get with the "Windows
> (Installer) : vtk-5.8.0-win32-x86.exe". I just downloaded and
> installed it on a Windows machine, and when I run "VTK" from the start
> menu (the only thing that appears to be an option), I get a blank
> terminal window and a blank gray widget with no further
> instructions/explanation - indeed very confusing!
>
> My understanding is that this is some sort of TCL-only binary package?
> My suggestion would be to remove this from the download page entirely,
> or at least bury it so it is not the first thing you see and so it
> doesn't look like what you should download as a new user. It should be
> immediately clear that VTK is intended to be used as a library, not a
> standalone application.
>
> David
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