[vtkusers] GUI for VTK (was [DEMO] amira)

[Jorrit Schaap]

> => my favorite "candidate" is wxWindows : http://www.wxwindows.org/, but
> I've NOT been playing with it for the moment. It looks serious, and seems
> easy to install. "It'a free C++ framework supporting Windows 3.1/95/98/NT,
> and Unix with GTK/Motif/Lesstif. A Mac port at version 2.0 is available.
> Other ports are under consideration." It has Python support :
> http://wxpython.org/.
>
> I guess we should compare Tk and wxWindows, it's worth a try. There is one
> big issue to solve : I do not know if there is an OpenGL support in
> wxWindows, or if we need to develop something like a TkRenderWidget or
> tkImageWidget for wxWindows...

wxWindows is my favorite as well ! I started to work with it about a week ago, and i love it.
It's simple, intuitive programming, so much better than MFC (understatement of the century). As
far as the OpenGL support, it's there. I made a little programm, in which I assign the
vtkRenderWindow the windowHandle of a wxFrame, and it worked, resizing, rendering, everything!

One disadvantage though, it's difficult to incorporate the wx GUI in an existing application. I
have an existing MFC application (written by others). My piece is the 3D visualization part,
incluiding a GUI. I didn't figure out how to get the two working together, but I'm sure its
possible. Maybe somebody in the mailing list knows?


> Just my 2 cents. Feel free to flame :)

No need to flame. you wrote a great mail.

Jorrit