[vtkusers] wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor and wxPython 2.5.2.8

[Sander Niemeijer]

>> On a side note: Has anybody ever tried to get the 
>> wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor working for Mac? I saw that Mathieu has 
>> some C++ version of wxVTK on his website, that looks like it supports 
>> Mac (both Cocoa and Carbon) but only using a top-level window handle. 
>> Any reasons why sub-windows can't be supported (in our application 
>> the VTK window is inside a splitter window)? Or has this just not 
>> been tried yet?
>
> On a side note, wxVTK doesn't work on Cocoa yet(*). I am still 
> struggling with those guys a wxWidget.

I was also wondering about that, because wxWidgets doesn't support 
Cocoa at all, only Carbon (and Classic, although I don't know how well 
supported that still is).
I also don't see a point in trying to create a version of wxVTK that 
supports Cocoa anyway. People who use wxVTK are using wxWidgets, so 
they shouldn't care about the kind of OSX GUI framework that is used 
underneath (that's the whole reason of wxWidgets existence). If Carbon 
works fine, that should be enough, right?

However, that still leaves my questions about the top-level vs. 
lower-level windows. Do you know why for Carbon only the top-level 
window handle can be retrieved via GetHandle()? Isn't it possible to 
have a VTK widget in some subpanel of a Carbon wxWidgets window? Does 
this maybe already work or is it otherwise theoretically possible to 
implement such a thing? Anybody ever investigated this?

Best regards,
Sander