[vtkusers] Oh no it's a VB user :-)

[Pan, Tony C (Research)]

Julian,
We use VTK with VB, but with only a small subset.  We wrote some classes that use VTK to do the vis,
a C style wrapper that's compiled with C++, and another C file compiled with C to wrap the C++
compiled wrapper.

VTK -> C++ classes to do our thing -> C wrapper compiled with C++ -> C wrapper compiled with C

The whole mess is compiled into a DLL. VB was able to call the C compiled wrapper functions.
Probably not the best solution, but it works for us.  We also have VTK pop up a stand alone window; I
don't know if the render window can be embedded.


Good luck.

Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen [mailto:rrp at imm.dtu.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:57 AM
To: julianholt
Cc: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Oh no it's a VB user :-)


Hi Julian,

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, julianholt wrote:

> There must be some reason why VB isn't supported

I believe a major reason is that VTK is designed to be cross-platform.

> I.E do I need to dig out my oooooold C books?

No. You can use one of the wrapped languages. TCL/TK, Python or Java. If
you want to make more sophisticated things, do not dig out your C books,
but buy some shiny new C++ ones.

Regards,
Rasmus


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