[vtkusers] Window events on Mac OS X

[Mike Jackson]

So your code some how calls vtkRenderWindow directly? There is no  
other toolkit involved like Qt, wxWidgets, fltk, tcl/Tk or anything  
like that?

If that is the case try the following in your CMakeLists.txt file for  
each target that is an executable.


  IF (APPLE AND VTK_USE_CARBON)
        ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET [YOUR_EXECUTABLE_TARGET_NAME_HERE]
            POST_BUILD
            COMMAND "/Developer/Tools/Rez" Carbon.r -o $ 
{EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/[YOUR_EXECUTABLE_TARGET_NAME_HERE]
            MAIN_DEPENDENCY [YOUR_EXECUTABLE_TARGET_NAME_HERE]
            VERBATIM
         )
   ENDIF (APPLE AND VTK_USE_CARBON)


-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Aug 4, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Peter Eastman wrote:

> On Aug 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:
>
>> Are you creating an .app bundle or just one gigantic binary with  
>> all static libraries? I ask because you may need to be running  
>> "Rez" on your executable after compilation.
>
> What I'm creating is an executable which links to a bunch of  
> dynamic libraries installed in a standard location.  I'm not  
> creating an .app bundle.
>
> I guess I should give some background.  What I'm actually working  
> on is a library, not an application (see https://simtk.org/home/ 
> simtkcore).  This is a cross platform library (supporting Mac,  
> Windows, and Linux) targeted at computational biologists.   
> Applications using it will generally fall into two categories:
>
> 1. Command line applications that run a simulation and write  
> results to files, often without displaying any kind of UI.
>
> 2. Large graphical applications that provide their own UI and make  
> use or our library for low level computation.
>
> As you can see, UI isn't really the focus of this library.  It's  
> about computation, not graphics.  For debugging, though, it can be  
> very useful to visualize what's going on in a simulation.  We  
> therefore provide some simple visualization features based on VTK.   
> Add one line of code to your command line application, and it  
> displays a window with a real time animation of what's happening in  
> your simulation.  That's what I'm trying to make work.  And it  
> needs to work for scientists who only know about writing Unix style  
> command line applications, and who may be developing on one  
> platform and expecting their code to work on others as well.
>
>> Does the window/Application come to "front" when clicked?
>
> No, it does not.
>
> Peter
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