[vtkusers] Python Examples

[William Greathouse]

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> From: vtkusers-admin at public.kitware.com
> [mailto:vtkusers-admin at public.kitware.com]On Behalf Of Charl P. Botha
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:14 AM
> To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [vtkusers] Python Examples
>
>
> Please don't CC me on your replies to the list.  Thanks.
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 16:02, William Greathouse wrote:
> > PYTHONPATH and PATH are both configured.  I can run other VTK Python
> > examples that do not require vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dll.  This dll
> > was not installed with the vtkNightly files.  Looking further into the
>
> Urgh...  did you also download and install vtkNightlyTcl.exe?  I am no
> expert on the nightly builds, I prefer to have my own build.  In
> addition, I mostly do this on *ix-like operating systems.

My preference also... I use Linux based systems for most product
development and release.  But, I travel with a M$ laptop and need
access to the M$ software world.  I use cygwin for most of my application
development as the code is highly portable to Linux.  I want to acheive
the same portable support for visualization code and scripting.  But I am
under the impressiion that the cygin/vtk support is not quite ready.  I'll
try doing a new build of VTK under cygwin with Tcl, Tk, Python support and
see how it plays out.

>
> > doc's, it seems that "rendering" is not part of the default build.  Is
> > this the build module that results in the needed dll?  I have not had
>
> I find this very hard to believe.  Rendering contains some crucial VTK
> components, such as vtkRenderer and vtkRenderWindow.  You're probably
> missing some other module.
>

In wrapping/Python/README.txt, "rendering, hybrid, pateneted and parallel"
are listed under "Optional Kits".  This led to my interpretation that
it might not be included in the default build.  I will try again doing
my own build and see what occurs.

> > any success in rebuilding VTK from the CVS sources in the past,
> so I was
> > looking for a ready-made solution to an integrated VTK, GUI, Python.
> > Tk seemed the simple choice, but if I need to rebuild VTK Python, I am
> > willing to use other "free" libraries.  Do you have any recommendations?
>
> Tk is the simplest and probably most straight-forward choice.

My impression also.

>
> --
> charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/

Thank you for the input.