[vtkusers] Nonblocking vtkRenderWindowInteractor

Kim Chuan Lim lim.kim.chuan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 04:24:49 EDT 2005


Hi Clinton,

Can i have your example (Event loops, timer, etc) please. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Kim Chuan.

On 6/10/05, Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:
> In general, it isn't thread safe.  You can search the mailing list
> archives for lots of previous discussions about threading, and how to
> included and use vtk in a threaded application.
> 
> I don't know what you are trying to accomplish, but sometimes threading
> is an unnecessary and more difficult alternative to using timers or
> writing your own event loop that handles window events plus other stuff
> (console input, sockets, etc...).  Timers are easy, and I can provide
> samples of the latter for Windows, Unix, and Mac, or post them somewhere.
> 
> Clint
> 
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:26:53 +0000
> >From: kim chuan <lim.kim.chuan at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [vtkusers] Nonblocking vtkRenderWindowInteractor
> >To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> >Message-ID: <1118395613.21397.1.camel at SCOOBY>
> >Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> >Hi ya,
> >
> >Is vtk really not thread safe?
> >If yes, may i know is it possible to make vtk thread safe?
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >Kim Chuan.
> >
> >
> >
> 
>



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