[vtkusers] vtkCocoaRenderWindowInteractor

[Drew McCormack]

How exactly does the behavior differ, Patrick?

I found what I think is a bug in the cocoa implementation. When I run 
the Mace example, for example, the clicks I make seem to be interpreted 
as though the window were positioned at the bottom-left corner of the 
screen. I was able to fix this by replacing a few lines of code in the 
vtkCocoaGLView source. If you look for any lines of this form:

     mouseLoc = [self convertPoint:[theEvent locationInWindow] 
fromView:nil];

and replace them with this:

     mouseLoc = [self convertPoint:[[self window] 
convertScreenToBase:[theEvent locationInWindow]] fromView:nil];

the interaction will be relative to the center of the window, wherever 
it is located.

I don't understand how this fix works, to be honest. I suspect that it 
just compensates for a problem elsewhere in the code, perhaps in the 
interactor class.

If this is a bug, someone should commit it to the repository; I'm 
afraid I don't have committing rights.

Drew McCormack

On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 09:49  pm, Patrick Klein wrote:

> Because of the great improvement in speed, I'd
> like to use Cocoa windows instead of X windows;
> however, the vtkCocoaRenderWindowInteractor
> doesn't behave very much like the
> vtkXRenderWindowInteractor in terms how
> it accepts clicks, keyboard input, etc.
> Are there plans to update this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Patrick
>
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