[vtk-developers] VTKWeb support for multiple windows on the client

[Dan Lipsa]

Great. Just about the time when I think I'll get to this. See you then.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> I'll be in KHQ next week. If you want we can talk about it in person.
>
> Seb
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Seb,
>> I'll have more questions when I get to implementing this.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
>> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would rather have one vtkWebMouseListener per div so each listener
>>> has its own view id.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Scott,
>>>> I was thinking to go one step further:
>>>> - Pass a map between the client elements(divs) and the server window
>>>> ids. I already have both the element ids and the server window ids.
>>>> - When a mouse event is received in vtkWebMouseListener we can use that
>>>> map and send the server window id the event applies too.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Scott Wittenburg <
>>>> scott.wittenburg at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>
>>>>> In VtkWebMouseListener, it is the "view" key in the vtk event
>>>>> structure that indicates what view to send the event to on the server, and
>>>>> it does seem that there is no way to change it from -1, which indicates to
>>>>> send the event to the active view.  However, both the paraviewweb and
>>>>> vtkweb server protocols have mouse handlers which take the id of the target
>>>>> view as an option, so what you want to do seems to be supported on the
>>>>> server side at least.  But I agree with you that the VtkWebMouseListener
>>>>> does not seem to provide a mechanism to change that view id.  One thing we
>>>>> could do is have the VtkWebMouseListener take a view id as an optional 4th
>>>>> argument which defaults to -1, then use that in the zoom and drag listeners.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that makes sense to you, you can put together a PR on paraviewweb,
>>>>> and I'll be happy to review it.  Otherwise, get in touch with me offline
>>>>> and we can chat about it.  Hope this helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> We are using VTKWeb + ParaViewWebClient in the browser. We open
>>>>>> several VTK windows on the server and put them inside different panels
>>>>>> (divs) in the browser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at VtkWebMouseListener/index.js it seems that there is no
>>>>>> support for this configuration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that client has not concept of active view, so it always
>>>>>> sends mouse events to the server, regardless of the active view on the
>>>>>> server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The resulting behavior is that you can move your mouse over a
>>>>>> different panel, but the active panel moves. Am I missing something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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