[vtkusers] KWWidgets & VTK

[David Gobbi]

Hi Randall,

KWWidgets works fine with C++, that's the way that most people use it,
and that's the primary language that it was made for.

I've used it a fair bit, and once you get past the "Tcl-ness" of it,
it's not bad for small projects.  It certainly integrates very nicely
with VTK, and has good widgets for volume rendering, surface
properties, etc.  It's not as nice as Qt, but hey, it's free for
commercial use and Qt isn't.

Also, it's cross-platform and very robust.

   David


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
> ick.. In that case what's the best way to go when working with VTK &
> KWWidgets?
> * Tcl?
> * Python?
> * Straight C?
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist
> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:04 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. It absolutely is. If you glance through the source code for
>> KWWidgets, you will see "Script" calls all over the place that evaluate
>> strings as tcl code. Without that functionality, KWWidgets would not work at
>> all.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've just had a new project handed to me that I think would be ideally
>>> suited for VTK & a very simple GUI, so I thought KWWidgets.  In the
>>> requirements I see Tcl/Tk listed.  Is Tcl/Tk really a _requirement_ for
>>> KWWidgets?  I'll be doing all my development exclusively in C.
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Randall Hand
>>> Visualization Scientist
>>> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>>>
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