[vtkusers] Re: vtkusers Digest, Vol 17, Issue 58

Wed Sep 21 13:21:18 EDT 2005

Hello,

I would appreciate help on how to download the vtk5.0
via wincvs. Somehow I can't browse the different
barnches. I'm rather a programming newbie. So, any
help is appreciated.

NIC

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> X Tiger;	event
>       handling problems (Jason Yerardi)
>    3. Re: Compiling VTK (David Lee Lambert)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:25:24 +0200
> From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk 4.2 and 4.4 install
> problems on Mac OS X
> 	Tiger;	event handling problems
> To: Jason Yerardi <jyerardi at cs.ohiou.edu>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Message-ID: <43308C54.7060506 at wanadoo.fr>
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> Jason Yerardi wrote:
> []
> > 3. I then tried the simplest thing, installing
> from 4.2.5-3 source  via 
> > the fink ports manager [I also tried installing
> with opendarwin  ports, 
> > but it failed]. Amazingly, this install worked and
> I now have  Cxx and 
> > Tcl support (although it's not the latest version
> and it  supports only 
> > X11, not Carbon or Cocoa). I have the following
> current  run-time issues:
> 
> You may not have noticed, but there is also a Fink
> package for a more 
> recent version. It is called vtk-py23, and it builds
> vtk-4.4.0. It is 
> alos apt-gettable as a precompiled binary if you
> don't want to build it 
> yourself.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:44:19 -0400
> From: Jason Yerardi <jyerardi at cs.ohiou.edu>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk 4.2 and 4.4 install
> problems on Mac OS X
> 	Tiger;	event handling problems
> To: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Message-ID:
> <0203367D-1E97-4DEC-A3CB-A510F4E3C1EF at cs.ohiou.edu>
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> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> I just saw that you're the maintainer for the
> package, so I'd like to  
> ask you a couple questions before I install it.
> 
> 1. Does the vtk-py23 install for only the
> interpreted languages, or  
> does it also support Cxx projects?
> 2. Will the vtk-install affect the vtk I've already
> installed? I know  
> that what's installed works for Cxx projects, so I'd
> like to have  
> that as a backup in case something goes wrong when
> installing vtk-py23.
> 3. Do interpreted Tcl scripts run by the vtk-py23
> software support  
> mouse and keyboard events?
> 
> If the answer to (3) is no, do you know of any
> method for how to make  
> events work in Tcl windows? I get partial
> interactivity with apps  
> built from C++, namely mouse support but no keyboard
> support --  
> keyboard presses are simply echoed in the terminal
> window. Do you of  
> any way to make keyboard interactivity work? Maybe
> some kind of  
> defaults or other tricks?
> 
> Sorry for all the questions. I hope you can help me
> out.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
> > Jason Yerardi wrote:
> > []
> >
> >> 3. I then tried the simplest thing, installing
> from 4.2.5-3  
> >> source  via the fink ports manager [I also tried
> installing with  
> >> opendarwin  ports, but it failed]. Amazingly,
> this install worked  
> >> and I now have  Cxx and Tcl support (although
> it's not the latest  
> >> version and it  supports only X11, not Carbon or
> Cocoa). I have  
> >> the following current  run-time issues:
> >>
> >
> > You may not have noticed, but there is also a Fink
> package for a  
> > more recent version. It is called vtk-py23, and it
> builds  
> > vtk-4.4.0. It is alos apt-gettable as a
> precompiled binary if you  
> > don't want to build it yourself.
> >
> > -- 
> > Martin
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:46:30 -0400
> From: David Lee Lambert <lamber45 at cse.msu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compiling VTK
> To: VTK <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Message-ID: <43309F56.60003 at cse.msu.edu>
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> 
> Martin Baumann wrote:
> 
> > cmake -i asks for a lot of parameters (such as 
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, 
> > VTK_USE_HYBRID, ...). Is there a
> > documentation of these parameters? I looked in the
> VTK User's Guide but 
> > in the installation documentation
> > there is no explanation of all these parameters.
> 
> If you can,  use ccmake instead -- it lets you go
> back and edit things 
> if you make a mistake.  It also has a short
> help-string for each option.
> 
> Some of the options are for turning on and off
> specific parts of the 
> source-tree;  for instance,  VTK_USE_HYBRID controls
> whether the classes 
> under Hybrid/ will be built.  If you don't need any
> of them,  you don't 
> need to build them into vtk.
> 
> --
> 
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