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

[Michael Jackson]

The Carbon is the way to go with this. I believe wxWidgets is "Carbon"  
based and so is Python would be my guess. By compiling VTK with Cocoa  
you are mixing the 2 technologies together which does not work.

I would stick with Carbon and figure out why it isn't "stable".

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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 5:01 PM, John Donker wrote:

> I tried tried that earlier and it was completely unstable but  
> displayed correctly.
>
> On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> _________________________________________________________
>> 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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