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

[julianholt]

Hi Andy/Rasmus/Tony

ActiViz
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I am looking at this at the moment (and talking to Bill).
The only problem I have is the size of the main dll - a bit too big to
distribute to our users via the web. So I thought I would have a look at
writing my own conversion for the calls I need

But my main concern was the performance using VB -- Maybe this isn't an
issue at all?

Multi-Platform
===========
As for cross platform -- we are Uncle Bill lovers here :-) so we don't care
about Unix :-)

C++ => Looks like more money might be spent with Amazon

VB
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Knowing which calls you want to make to the various vtk dlls, it should be
possible to call them directly by writing VB conversions (a bit like using
the windows API). But at the end of the day, the activiz product is
reasonably priced and so it's probably not worth putting in too much effort
in writing our own version (apart from the size issue)

Many thanks guys.

Great forum and I am sure I will have loads of questions (once Amazon
deliver my vtk toolkit and userguide)

Regards

Julian Holt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Cedilnik" <andy.cedilnik at kitware.com>
To: "julianholt" <jholt at fatiguewizard.com>; "vtk-users"
<vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: 23 July 2002 06:51
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Oh no it's a VB user :-)


> Hello Julian,
>
> Our company has a product called ActiViz/COM, which provides VTK
> bindings to Visual Basic and C#. Please look at our web page for more
> information and for a free evaluation copy:
>
> http://www.kitware.com/products/activiz/activizCOM.html
>
> Thank you.
>
> Andy Cedilnik
> Kitware Inc.
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 17:41, julianholt wrote:
> > OK guys I am going to swear here by mentioning the V word--------
> >
> > Visual Basic
> >
> > Is anyone using vtk with VB? and if so I would be interested in knowing
how
> > you are getting on.
> >
> > Now without starting a "my dad is bigger than yours" argument :-)  For
me,
> > VB is all I need. I used to use C for my number crunching code and shell
out
> > from VB, but gave that up when VB became a compiled code (VB5).
> >
> > so,
> >
> > My basic question is, if you use VB with vtk is there a huge performance
> > loss when compared with C?
> > There must be some reason why VB isn't supported (arn't there more lines
of
> > VB written than any other language?)
> >
> > I.E do I need to dig out my oooooold C books?
>
>
>