[vtkusers] Updating view in vtkCanvas.

[Jeff Lee]

 From which thread are you calling update()?  i.e. 
System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().toString());  It should be the 
AWT Event thread.  If not, try  scheduling a Runnable with 
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(...).
-Jeff

Said. wrote:

>Hi vtkusers,
>
>The screenshot
>http://www-sop.inria.fr/caiman/personnel/Said.El_Kasmi/vtk/vtk.htm give
>an idea about the environement for visualization and simulations'
>steering I'm developping. The concept is very simple, I have a solver
>connected to the desktop. The solver compute a solution and send it to
>the desktop every N iteration where N is one of the simulation
>paraneters. The desktop should, every time a new solution arrives,
>update the 3D View.
>
>To accomlish this, I use vtkCanvas in an JInternalFrame this way:
>
>class Desktop{
>
>	PlotFrame pf;
>	:
>	:
>	public void update3DView(){
>		pf.update();
>	}
>
>}
>
>class PlotFrame extends JInternalFrame{
>
>	vtkCanvas renWin;
>	:
>	:
>	public void update(){
>		renWin.Render();
>	}
>
>
>}
>
>The probleme is the call desktop.update3DView(); have no effect that
>means the call renWin.Render() have NO EFFECT TOO. So to update the view
>I'm obliged to do the call : pf.updateUI(); to perform the updating view
>operation.
>
>Does any of you have an idea about how to resolv this problem. THANKS.
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