[vtkusers] vtk 4.2 and 4.4 install problems on Mac OS X Tiger; event handling problems

[Sean McBride]

On 2005-09-20 17:16, Jason Yerardi said:

>1. Installing 4.4 from the CD that came with the textbook was  
>impossible. No matter how I configured with CMake or how I modified  
>the source code, I had lots of multiply defined symbols and link  
>errors and couldn't get a successful compile.

This is becoming a FAQ. :)

>2. I then tried installing from 4.2-6 source. The only set of options  

You're going the wrong way, try installing vtk 5.0 from source, there
were many Mac bug fixes.

>I'm aware that there are some event-handling problems on OS X, but  
>embedding the executable into a .app package is purported to fix  
>these problems. Why do I still lack keyboard support when  
>running .app packages? Does anyone know how to fix this problem so I  
>can use the keyboard correctly in these built applications?

There were also some Cocoa event handling bugs fixed in 5.0, but I'm not
sure if that applies to Tcl, which I've never used.

>Also, since Tcl scripts are interpreted and not compiled, they can't  
>be placed into .app packages as the executable -- what solution is  
>available for getting mouse and keyboard interactivity in Tcl windows?

Post back if 5.0 doesn't fix it.

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