[vtkusers] start programing with the insa creatis compil (ITK, VTK, FLTK)?

[Wagner Sales]

Hi Amir,

charfeddine amir wrote:
> hello,
> i have to work with ITK, VTK, and FLTK (or other GUI tool)
> i'm using Linux Mandriva 2006 (gcc-c++ 4.0.1)
> is it right to install ITK, VTK and FLTK rpms i find in the insa 
> creatis web site, or i should install package from original sites 
> (vtk.org, itk.org,....)
I think the best way ( used by me ) are the old and good 
download/compile/install. Cmake, wich is used to configure ITK and VTK 
before compile are very simple to use and learn, the ITK Guide have 
informations how to compile. If you want to follow this way, then:
1 - Download CMAKE from www.cmake.org. To install, you need just unpack 
in local in path ( /usr, /usr/local, etc ).
2 - Download ITK  ( and docs! ;) ) and start to play.
The VTK i'll answer above the last question.
> tell me the best compil (versions) which do not represent bugs of this 
> three package(ITK, VTK, FLTK)
> and advise me the simplest GUI toolkit to use if not FLTK.
The GUI are not so simple to answer. See:
- If you choose VTK version 5.0 ( avaiable only on CVS from vtk.org ) 
you have support to Qt and others
- If you choose the "stable version" you needs to download and install 
this support separately. Are not so complicated, but you needs to know 
more about CMake.
- FLTK: I don't know much about FLTK, but I believe if your distro have 
the packages, use it. I'm using Qt and I loves it. But don't forget: Qt 
are GPL! Thats means you can't develop closed source commercial 
applications using it without buy a license.
Well, finally, I'm using ( except qt, are downloaded and compiled from 
source ):
- itk 2.2
- vtk 5.0
- qt 3.3
Of course, you can play with 4.1, from www.trolltech.com. If you'll not 
develop commercial software, I recomend Qt. Easy to learn and use, well 
designed and documented.
You can take a look in kwWidgets too, wich are developed and used by 
kitware.

Regards

Wagner

> thankx.
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