[vtkusers] wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py fails on OSX with VTK Cocoa build

[Dan White]

Hi Mike,

So what you are saying is...

wxPython uses Carbon not Cocoa....
so actually wxPython needs to learn how to use Cocoa?

Is that the point?

Dan






On Feb 20, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> Oh, the fun of Carbon, Cocoa and C++ developers..
>
> Early on when all those 3rd party toolbox developers brought their
> toys to OS X they didn't know objective-C. This lead to them using
> Carbon (C++) instead to port their code to OS X. Fast forward a few
> years to the present time and now you get the current batch of
> problems. Carbon didn't go 64 Bit, only cocoa, but all those 3rd party
> toolkits are still Carbon. My guess is that python and wx are all
> based on carbon so you _have_ to use a Carbon build of VTK to
> inter-operate with those toolkits.
>
> If this is a limitation because Carbon is only 32 bit I would find the
> proper person at Apple and state your case as to why Carbon should be
> ported to 64 bit (If at all possible).
>
> So, the short answer to your question is that if you are using wx you
> will have to use a Carbon build of VTK as wx is expecting Carbon data
> structures.
>
>
> Sorry for the bad news
> Mike Jackson
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Dan White <white at mpi-cbg.de> wrote:
>> Hi OS X VTKers, like Sean, Gaetan,  et al,
>>
>> We notice that wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
>> is failing for VTK Ccoca builds:
>>
>> here is the VTK bug report i filed....
>>
>> did anyone else run into that?
>> Does anyone else use xwPython for a GUI on OSX?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> Cocoa enabled build of VTK CVS on OSX 10.5.2 with 10.5 SDK
>> -arch -i386;86_64
>> cocoa needed for 64 bit VTK, carbon is not 64 bit and is depreciated.
>>
>> wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py throws a type error as it is getting
>> only 1 argument when expecting 2
>> in onPaint. This does not happen wiht a Carbon build of VTK,
>> so there must be some thing wrong with the way cocoa vtk render  
>> window
>> is talking to wx render window interactor?
>> This bug also shows up in BioImageXD with a VTK cocoa build, as it
>> also uses wx.
>> (again carbon vtk works as expected, but cant build 64 bit with
>> carbon, and never will be able to )
>>
>>
>>
>> private-white:Desktop dan$ python2.5 /Users/dan/Desktop/VTKCVSgcc/ 
>> VTK/
>> Wrapping/Python/vtk/wx/wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/Users/dan/Desktop/VTKCVSgcc/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/wx/
>> wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py", line 311, in OnPaint
>>    self._Iren.GetRenderWindow().SetSize(self.GetSizeTuple())
>> TypeError: function takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
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