[vtk-developers] Broken offscreen example

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree.We should describe how to use osmesa to accomplish offscreen mesa.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
<aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
> Right. Sorry, I didn't quite say it right. I meant that for version 6 or
> higher, this example is not relevant. It does have the preprocessors but I
> am wondering if we need better message or
> just point to the fact that  osmesa is compile time only.
>
> If we want to keep it like this, then I can add some text in the
> description.
>
> - Aashish
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Requires vtk 5.10
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > And passes on these nightly dashboards:
>> >
>> > http://open.cdash.org/testSummary.php?project=32&name=Utilities-OffScreenRendering&date=2014-08-19
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Works for me.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
>> >> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >>> Sure but the test name and the description is not right. I am ok with
>> >>> creating a new test with the right name for the purpose you mentioned.
>> >>>
>> >>> Makes sense?
>> >>>
>> >>> - Aashish
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:18 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
>> >>>> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On this note, actually  I might remove it altogether if that's Ok.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> - Aashish
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It seems to me that rendering to a file is an important part of some
>> >>>> workflows (scripts that generate a sequence of renderings, etc.). I
>> >>>> would
>> >>>> vote to not remove it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> David
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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