[vtkusers] INSTALLATION

[Kofi Nyamekye]

Jeremy:  Thanks for your help. I will try your steps, and if I run into any problems, I will contact you again. I wish you and the rest of the VTKUSERS GROUP a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

 

Kofi.

 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Winston" <jbw at ieee.org>
To: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] INSTALLATION


> Kofi Nyamekye wrote:
> > Hi Folks:  I just installed the VTK Software on my NT 4.0 Service Pack 
> > 6a. The Tcl and the Cmake have installed properly, but the VTK 4.2 has 
> > not even though during installation the system acknowledged that the VTK 
> > 4.2 has been successfully installed. In fact, the VTK option does not 
> > even appear in the Start/Program submenu. When I tested the examples 
> > (e.g., GUI, Mangledmessa) in the Examples folder (vdk-scr-windows), I 
> > get an error message that it cannot find the vtk. 
> 
> Kofi,
>      You have to put the path to vtk.exe in your PATH environment variable.
> Also, if you want to be able to double-click on a vtk .tcl file and have it
> run automatically, you have to override the default association of such
> files to the Tcl executable, and associate them instead with your vtk.exe.
> 
> Windows Explorer, Tools|Folder options..., File types tab, scroll down
> to the TCL entry in the Registered file types: window, highlight it,
> and click the Change button, find vtk in the Open with pop-up.  If it's
> not there, click the Other... button and add it.  I think the default
> location is in a "vtk" or "Visualization Toolkit" folder in "C:\Program Files".
> 
> This will allow the .tcl examples to work.  To get the C++ examples to
> work, you have to compile them.
> 
> HTH,
> -Jeremy
> 
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