[vtk-developers] Modularization, Context2D and Tcl

[David E DeMarle]

And I _will_ add text to the download page to make it clear what that
binary is because you are entirely right that it shouldn't be the
first thing newbies try.

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 4:12 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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