[vtkusers] GUI for VTK

[Bob Palank]

Bill wrote "As for a visual programming interface... sounds like a great
project for our
> user community. Perhaps you folks can get organized and start an open
source
> project on this topic."
"   I couldn't agree more and before a spec is developed, I suggest that a
we do a careful analysis of the GUIs by AVS, OpenDX, and Principia's and
then develop a plan of attack.
If beneficial, I volunteer to host a website to hold the developing spec and
posted email .
>From now on could we standardize the subject to GUI for VTK ?
BR
  Bob Palank
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Lorensen <>
To: Chris Myers <myers at tc.cornell.edu>; David E. Jones
<jonesde at rainbow.es.dupont.com>
Cc: <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Pipelines and high-level control (was GUI for VTK)


> David,
>          I agree that the scripts and programs that are distributed with
vtk are
> flat. But, these are meant to illustrate pieces of vtk in isolation. They
> are also useful for our automated testing. I don't see them as examples of
> good object-oriented application design.
>
> In our experience at GE, tcl is seldom used for real applications. The
> visualization is just a small part of the application  and the app is
> typically designed and written in an OO way. Some of our customers have
> build abstractions that package vtk objects into pipelines that are more
> domain specific such as medical imaging or industrial inspection.
>
> As for a visual programming interface... sounds like a great project for
our
> user community. Perhaps you folks can get organized and start an open
source
> project on this topic.
>
>
> Bill
>
> At 12:19 PM 6/16/00 -0400, Chris Myers wrote:
> >Related to this point raised here is something that I think is
> >important, but which seems to have been lacking in this thread on a
> >VTK GUI (although I admit that I haven't read every last bit of the
> >discussion).
> >
> >Any VTK GUI would be considerably aided, it would seem, by programming
> >language support for pipelines (as well as other collections of VTK
> >objects).  I've always found it a bit strange that VTK is so richly
> >structured in a hierarchial fashion, but that the scripts and programs
> >used to drive it are so flat (and sometimes hard to follow).  I've
> >played around a little bit (from within Python) with building pipeline
> >objects, and other facades on top of the core VTK libraries (to bundle
> >up collections of objects and present simpler interfaces), although
> >I haven't yet gotten as far with that as I would like.
> >
> >As I said, having abstractions for VTK pipelines would be useful for
> >building GUIs as well as other higher-level control framework, whether
> >graphical in nature or not.  I am wondering whether anyone else has
> >developed any such code, or has thought about such issues.
> >
> >Chris
> >
>
>==========================================================================
> >Chris Myers
> >Cornell Theory Center
>
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> >636 Rhodes Hall              email: myers at tc.cornell.edu
> >Cornell University           phone: (607) 255-5894 / fax: (607) 254-8888
> >Ithaca, NY 14853             http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~myers
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >"To thine own self be blue." - Polonious Funk
>
>==========================================================================
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, David E. Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:47:14 -0400
> > > From: "David E. Jones" <jonesde at rainbow.es.dupont.com>
> > > To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
> > > Subject: Re: [vtkusers]  GUI for VTK (was [DEMO] amira)
> > >
> > > Why pursue a Visual Programming interface ?  Is it better than a
script language ?I think it's
> > > not and it's also less flexible.   However, a point and click GUI
would
> > > be useful.  What about something like the SciAn GUI ?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > --
> > > David E Jones
> > > Du Pont Central Research
> > > Experimental Station, Bldg 320
> > > Wilmington, DE 19880-0320
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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