[vtkusers] Building vtk on Mac OS X - wrapping apps

[Yves Starreveld]

Hi, Surajit,

On OSX, if you want an app to be recognized by the window manager as an 
event-recipient, the binary must be ensconced in an 'app wrapper'

This is a collection of directories, top level ends in .app. 
Subdirectory Contents contains an Info.plist file and a MacOS directory. 
The MacOS directory contains the binary executable.

The easiest way to get this going is to get an example application from 
Apples' sample software, download it,  copy the .app directory, and 
replace its binary with your Mace binary for example. Then, when you 
execute the Mace binary, the app will launch, appear in the dock, and 
the window manager will properly send it events.

This needs to be integrated into the vtk build process, but since only 
the interactive apps need it, and the tests run fine without, it hasn't 
happened as yet.

Yves
On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Surajit Nundy wrote:

> Hello,
>      I am new to vtk having read 
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/28/data_visualization.html 
> in the O'Reilly MacDevcenter.  I've been trying to follow the 
> instructions to the letter, but I can never get interactivity in a vtk 
> window.  All the demonstrations in the article (expCos, 
> BandContourTerrain, TimeRenderer, TimeRenderer2 and Mace -I) can be 
> visualized, but the Windows do not have any interactivity (./Mace 
> behaves like ./Mace -I).  The only way to quit them is by doing a kill 
> on the parent process or Ctrl-C. I'd be very grateful if you could help 
> me.
>
> Surajit Nundy
>
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