[vtkusers] Offscreen Rendering with Windows

[Stefan Wesarg]

Hi René,

Simply call "OffScreenRenderingOn()" from your vtkRenderWindow object. 
It works fine for us (Win2000/XP, VTK 4.4, VisualStudio 6).

Regards,
Stefan

Rene Tschirley wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>
>Did anybody try to use offscreen rendering on the Windows OS? As far as I
>understand earlier discussions, there is the way to do offscreen
>rendering using the Mesa subsystem on the *nix platform as well as a
>virtual framebuffer.
>
>I'm curious if there is a significant chance to let VTK render images
>which I can then use in my Java application. This has to be as
>platform-independent as possible (a compiled VTK-JAR for each target
>platform would be bad enough for my project), so I don't even want to use
>Cygwin.
>
>
>Yours,
>René
>
>  
>

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