VTK and Java

[Randy Heiland]

On Jun 30,  7:16am, Audrius Stundzia wrote:
> Subject: Re: VTK and Java
> 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 :)


As a simple example of using Java Swing + VTK, I made available a pared down
version of an app I built awhile back:
  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~heiland/vtk/{Viewer.java, VTKPanel.java}

However, this doesn't address Igor's concerns of converting vtkPanel into a
JFrame.

--Randy



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