[vtkusers] vtkXRenderWindowInteractor bug

[Clinton Stimpson]

I'm not quite sure how you figure it isn't a bug.  I thought vtk was 
supposed to provide me with a consistent method to know what events are.  
And all I need to do is provide some implementation in my vtkInteractoStyle 
class to do stuff.  I shouldn't have to worry about differences between the 
OS's.

Do you have any suggestions for working around this?  Make my own 
vtkXRenderWindowInteractor class?

Thanks,
Clint

Quoting Mathieu Malaterre <Mathieu.Malaterre at creatis.insa-lyon.fr>:

> Clinton,
> 	This is not a bug, X11RenderWindow uses 'XLookupString' to 
translate 
> the key, whereas the Win32RenderWindow uses a tab:
> "Virtual Key Code to Unix KeySym Conversion"
> 
> 	I guess if you don't call the 'XLookupString' you may get 
the 'real' 
> key event.
> 
> HTH
> mathieu
> 
> 
> Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> > I'm using VTK 4.2 -- I can get the shift-tab event on Windows but I 
> > don't get such an event for X11.
> > 
> > On Windows, I get
> > Interactor->GetKeyCode() == 9, Interactor->GetKeySym() == "Tab"
> > for a tab.
> > 
> > On X11, I get
> > Interactor->GetKeyCode() == 9, Interactor->GetKeySym() == "\t"
> > for a tab.
> > 
> > 
> > On Windows, I get
> > Interactor->GetKeyCode() == 0, Interactor->GetKeySym() == "Tab"
> > for a shift-tab.
> > 
> > On X11, I get
> > Interactor->GetKeyCode() == 0, Interactor->GetKeySym() == NULL
> > for a shift-tab.
> > 
> > That seems inconsistent to me and I need this to work right.
> > 
> > Clint
> > 
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