VTK and Java

[Audrius Stundzia]

Dear vtker's

As a javaphile, I've been somewhat frustrated by the Tcl-centric 
nature of vtk, and the problems with vtkPanel w.r.t. Swing,
so I'll second Igor's Java question.

One (heretical) approach I've used is to write a GUI in pure Java/Swing and
have a simple set of JNI (Java Native Interface) calls to execute the vtk
graphics C++ pipeline in a seperate thread.

It's a bit like making sausages. It's not pretty, 
but the result can be surprisingly good :)

Regards, 

Audrius

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:02:17 -0700 (PDT), Igor Fridman wrote:

> This is a followup question to the one I asked
> previously.  
> 
> What is the future of VTK and Java?  Since the current
> widget for displaying a render window in java,
> vtkPanel, appears to be exploiting a "loophole" in
> java architecture, is there any hope to making a
> render widget which will be fully compatible in the
> java environment?
> 
> Has anyone atempted making a replacement for vtkPanel?
> 
> BTW: Magician, the OpenGL implementation for Java is
> now free for development of open source software,
> available here: 
> 
> http://www.arcana.co.uk/products/magician/
> 
> 
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