[vtkusers] Mac OS X related questions

[William A. Hoffman]

You should never edit the Makefiles manually.   CMake can re-write them if a single file changes.   Each time dependencies are computed the Makefiles are re-built.   All editing should be in the CMakeCache.txt file.

-Bill


At 04:01 PM 7/16/2002 +0200, Raphael Sebbe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>you can compile VTK using the Cocoa backend instead of Carbon. Just run cmake -i, say OFF to Carbon and ON to Cocoa. You'll have to edit some Makefiles manually to add -framework Cocoa in the link step.
>
>It definitely works from a Cocoa application and from what I've seen so far, it should even be possible (perhaps tricky) to add a VTK view inside a custom window. You just have to use Objective C++ files (.mm, instead of regular .m ObjC files) and make the appropriate calls, as:
>
>vtkRenderWindow *renWin = vtkRenderWindow::New();
>vtkRenderWindowInteractor *iren = vtkRenderWindowInteractor::New();
> iren->SetRenderWindow(renWin);
>...
>
>Raphael Sebbe
>
>
>On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:42 PM, vtkusers-
>request at public.kitware.com wrote:
>
>>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:47:59 +0200
>>From: Drew McCormack <cormack at chem.vu.nl>
>>To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
>>Subject: [vtkusers] Mac OS X related questions
>>
>>I've just installed VTK on Mac OS X, and am looking forward to learning
>>it. I had a few questions I was hoping I could get answered:
>>
>>1) VTK works under Carbon or X-windows, but does anyone know if anyone
>>is working on integrating it with Cocoa? Is it possible to take the VTK
>>output and display it in a cocoa window?
>>
>>2) Is there support in VTK for exporting movies, for example in one or
>>other MPEG format? Is there any support for Quicktime? If not, how do
>>people make movies with VTK? Do they just grab the screen while the VTK
>>animation is running?
>>
>>I guess some of these questions would be answered in a text book, which
>>is next on my list of things to buy, but the OS X related questions
>>probably aren't. I'd be much obliged to anyone that can fill me in.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Drew
>
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