[vtk-developers] VTKRenderWindowInteractor.py does not display correctly on retina display

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:54:34 -0700, Brian Alger said:

>On a MacBook Pro with retina display, running:
>python lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/qt/QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
>
>shows the following
>
><http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/file/n5742298/
>QVTKRenderWindowInteractor_retina.png> 
>
>The cone is only in the lower left. This works as expected on non retina
>displays.
>Using: VTK 7.1.0, PyQt 5.6
>I found  this <https://github.com/siudej/Eigenvalues/blob/master/qvtk.py>  
>that shows how one might fix the problem. Incorporating their changes does
>seem to fix the problem but their comment
>says it is not the right way to do this.
>
>What is the correct way to get this to work?

It's a VTK bug.  The fix is mostly done:

<https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/2431>

waiting for me to clean it up a bit...

Cheers,

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