[vtkusers] Can vtkRenderWindowInteractor perform the aame on Mac OSX and XP

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Tue May 4 18:27:28 EDT 2004


Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Chris Scharver wrote:
> 
>> On May 4, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Jay Li wrote:
>>
>>> Seems the vtkRenderWindowInteractor doesn't work well on Mac OSX. I'm 
>>> not familiar with Mac or VTK. Do I need to specify something in Mac? 
>>> Does anyone have the same experience?
>>
>>
>>
>> Did you build using Cocoa or Carbon as the windowing API for MacOS X? 
>> You'll need to build with Carbon to use the scripting languages. I 
>> know that the Cocoa render window has some problems correctly 
>> determining the mouse position relative to the window. Or are you 
>> encountering something different?
> 
> 
> I thought this was again the problem of bundling properly, meaning 
> creating the ressource + subdir.
> 
> Hopefully this will be fixed in the next cmake version which will add a 
> MACBUNDLE option for creating exe

In the X11 version of VTK for Mac OS X in Fink, 
vtkRenderWindowInteractor doesn't appear to work with the Tcl wrapper. 
There is no problem to interact with windows when other methods are 
used, and vtkRenderWindowInteractor works with the Python wrapper, just 
not with Tcl.

--
Martin




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