[vtkusers] Building VTK for XDarwin

[Robb Brown]

That's not bad at all.  With a rootless display it's fine for development.

How exactly does that combination work?  Do you just import Tkinter 
linked to X-Tk and VTK compiled for Quartz into the same Python 
environment?  Are there any problems coordinating the two?



>On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 01:12 , Robb Brown wrote:
>>Thanks, this worked perfectly.  Marcel is right though -- it is very slow.
>>   Why is this?  Is it an XDarwin issue or something wrong with X in general?
>
>It's a problem with the XFree86 server for Darwin/OS X. It currently 
>only supports software rendering, so it does not take any advantage 
>of your video card's abilities. The commercial X servers (ex: Tenon) 
>supports hardware accelerated OpenGL, but it's rather unstable.
>
>>What is the current state of the art in OSX VTK graphical 
>>interfaces? There is a version of Tk for OSX (Quartz) now and 
>>Python has been made to (at least somewhat) work with it.  Has 
>>anybody gotten the VTK-Python-Tk combination to work?
>
>Tkinter on Quartz is still unstable. I am using the VTK-Python-Tk 
>combo on OS X by running Tk on X-Windows and VTK on Quartz. You'll 
>need separate windows for the GUI and the VTK display with this 
>setup. It's not the best solution, but it works OK.
>
>Marcel


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