[vtk-developers] Fwd: [vtk.uservoice.com] New suggestion: 'Return support for Tkinter widgets.' (Berk Geveci)

Wed Aug 12 23:50:59 EDT 2015

Thanks for this David,

I'll check this out. I have had Tcl problems that I resolved by putting the
windows default paths last.
My Python's Tk, Tcl are all 64-bit.

Regards
    Andrew

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:18 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> I found some time this morning to build Tcl/Tk on my Windows system, and
> for me all of the Tkinter tests ran fine under Python 3 on Windows.  Are
> you sure that you don't have a version mismatch between Python's tk and
> VTK's tk?  Another possibility is that it's related to 64-bit Windows
> builds versus 32-bit Windows builds (my build was 32-bit).
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> FYI
>>
>> At this stage Tk support is certainly in VTK 6.3 and the python support
>> for Tk is Python 2.5 - 2.7 there. I did translate the Tk tests into Python
>> a few months ago. So for VTK 6.3 binaries it should be ok to turn on Tk
>> support.
>>
>> For the current master there is Tk support for both Python 2 and Python
>> 3, however the Python Tk tests using Python 3 only work Ok on Linux and OSX
>> (I think - not tested by by myself) however there is an issue with windows
>> (a segfault).
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
>>> To: David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>>> Cc: VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>, David Gobbi <
>>> david.gobbi at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:08:20 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] Fwd: [vtk.uservoice.com] New suggestion:
>>> 'Return support for Tkinter widgets.'
>>> OK thanks for the info. I will respond and try to find out more. Maybe
>>> it's a distro that he is talking about...
>>>
>>> -berk
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:49 AM, David E DeMarle <
>>> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tk is not turned on in the vtkpython binaries.
>>>>
>>>> Last time was probably in the Tcl binary (windows only) in 5.8 or
>>>> 5.10.0.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:42 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's news to me.  Just yesterday, me and Andrew were testing the Tk
>>>>> widgets to make sure that they were compatible with the Python 3 changes on
>>>>> all platforms. Are they still packaged in the binary releases?
>>>>>
>>>>>  - David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This came through VTK's uservoice. I didn't think that we stopped
>>>>>> support any Tk widgets. Am I wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> -berk
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: VTK <no-reply at vtk.uservoice.com>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [vtk.uservoice.com] New suggestion: 'Return support for
>>>>>> Tkinter widgets.'
>>>>>> To: "berk.geveci" <berk.geveci@ <berk.geveci at gmail.com>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Customer Feedback for VTK vtk.uservoice.com
>>>>>> <http://email.uservoice.com/c/eJxVjksSgyAMQE9Tlg4YQmDBWRxIomXUOkOt569d9gDvI1lwNC0jcsV5FkiplomAPMzqIxDW4ryzESPow9vPW_t1NNaBj908c3ABxNugdhRMETU5KFS42pIsIpktX-c6_GNnL7y21zLxIZqpktx1JQGimKKMrlRgD5yQA0bTc9W-Doteyu1-WPbStp_oC9yGOjE>
>>>>>> New suggestion
>>>>>> 1
>>>>>> votes
>>>>>> Return support for Tkinter widgets.
>>>>>> <http://email.uservoice.com/c/eJxVT8uOxCAM-5r2RlUaKHDgMJf9jRGPwKA-qIB2f3-Z40qRktiyZXvt-TImzbmzPAQPSlnzFiAYBGQSBLeGMjpLLgEHNt8Vy5OTw8nlY_xoiasTljoK4HENkuOCSClX1Epv5zDu-tPaNcBrWH76PG2b_nl0zPgjnX2HXO6j9gMonyWJeGIxe__rHSPWlvL5ZdWieh5GCra7nKTe15VLI11N2pbOhoX8Jh-x1bEV4zoU3y571MIK32ui8CCEVNIv1FhwDJzibuVyLNpi2aaID7rUy8bDpP0b8g-1-16E>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Posted in General
>>>>>> <http://email.uservoice.com/c/eJxVjr2OwyAQhJ_GdGcZL-uFgiJNXiNaYHGQ_yLs-PmPK08aaUZTzHzJJxxV8YgxYM4JnAv8IiADWYwFwsDa6MGiBenM8D2l3keJ0sdjU29vMgzsgJmIUUbn9OS0OGTIZNPEavXv6_p08OjGZ9N9Lf2_jdZx2srePB_1u50tgMbB_syyS-VVXZXjUvb5FY8kngKlxiqUgMg6m0bNAaKB6DBOaFX1QerSz3JLLI143risf0-_hZpIvg>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tkinter is a good GUI toolkit, is cross-platform, simple to use and
>>>>>> lightweight (as opposed to Qt), which is important for scientific users
>>>>>> like me developing tools with graphics capabilities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know it is not very popular, but it only needs support and usage to
>>>>>> gain visibility and expand its user base. Lack of support from important
>>>>>> projects like VTK don't help in the cause, so it seems to me like a vicious
>>>>>> circle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So please, return the support for the widgets.
>>>>>>
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