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

[Jason Yerardi]

Thanks so much for the extra help. I am now getting closer to have a  
complete working install, but there is a still a Tcl issue.

I've installed vtk-py23. Now I have both mouse and keyboard activity  
for compiled C++ projects, but...

For the Step5 and Step 6 Tcl cone tutorials, I get only a blank  
window; and for their compiled C++ counterparts, I get a bus error  
(window doesn't even pop up). With version 4.2, the windows would pop  
up, I just wouldn't have interactivity. The other Cone tutorials work  
fine for both Tcl and C++ projects.

Since the Step5 and Step6 tutorials use the interactive renderer, one  
would guess that there's a Mac problem with the window interactor.  
BUT, I am able to compile DataInteractor/[Cube and Arrays] and run  
them with both keyboard and mouse interactivity. However, when I try  
to run the Tcl Arrays.tcl script, I again get just a blank window.

So, the problem doesn't always behave in the same way. Does anyone  
know what may be the source of this strange problem?

Meanwhile, I am also building from CVS source. I'll post back when I  
find out if and how it works after it compiles.

Thanks for all the advice.

Jason

On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Jason Yerardi wrote:
> []
>
>> 1. Does the vtk-py23 install for only the interpreted languages,  
>> or  does it also support Cxx projects?
>>
>
> It  installs at least as much as the older package, plus python  
> support.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> They install in different directories so you can have both  
> installed at the same time. You may need to adapt some environment  
> variables like TCLLIBPATH.
>  .
>
>> 3. Do interpreted Tcl scripts run by the vtk-py23 software  
>> support  mouse and keyboard events?
>>
>
> Some do, some don't. I don't know why, but there is indeed  
> something wrong with the input of VTK in X11 on the MAC. Even the  
> python version has problems there, too, also not as bad as the tcl  
> version.
>
>
>> 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, I cannot help. If someone else knows how to make these  
> things work, I will be more than happy to adapt the Fink package  
> correspondingly, but I haven't yet seen any suggestions how to  
> solve the problem, nor even a convincing explanation of what is  
> wrong there.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>