[vtkusers] Cocoa, Python, VTK and wx embedded window problems

[Michael Jackson]

I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest you recompile  
with Carbon=ON and Cocoa=OFF and see what happens.


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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:42 PM, John Donker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am working  on a project that is using VTK with wxWidgets and  
> Python. And on OS X (10.5) something very strange happens. When I  
> try to embed the VTK window (like in the example  
> wxvtkWindowRender.py in wrapping/python/vtk/wx) I get two windows of  
> the same size. One displays the VTK openGL output and the other  
> responds to events.  The openGL output responds correctly, except  
> that it's rendering in a different window.
>
> The same python code works on Windows Vista without any problems. In  
> the terminal some messages appear that the window can't be remapped  
> because it's unsupported.  A quick check in the headers confirms  
> this. But I have seen embedded VTK windows in other apps so this  
> unlikely. Since I have very limited experience with OpenGL and Cocoa  
> I don't really have an idea where to look to solve this problem.
>
> I am compiling from the command-line with shared_libs,  
> python_wrapping and cocoa.  Is this a known bug?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Donker
>
>
>
>
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