[vtk-developers] VTK Web with no window opened by the VTK server

[Sebastien Jourdain]

The solution was in my first email

=> If you use pvbatch, that should work out of the box with PV_ALLOW_BATCH_
INTERACTION=1.

For the window part ask Utkarsh since he did that work a couple weeks ago
on ParaView...

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> And then if you use pvbatch instead of pvpython, that window disappear
>> the way you want...
>>
>
> While this works to show the cone on the client, it crashes when you try
> to interact with it. I've seen the same
> behavior for the VTK server if you don't set the interactor at all.
>
>
> There are many reasons why that's the case but mostly history. What
>> ParaView is doing is figuring out at runtime which render window it should
>> instantiate.
>> Since you are not in ParaView, you have to implement that logic yourself.
>>
>
> I think it chooses different render windows only if EGL or OSMesa are
> available. Otherwise it just sets OffScreenRenderingOn(). I'll dig to see
> what else it does so that no window shows.
>
> Thanks Seb.
>
> Dan
>
>
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