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

[John Donker]

Just tried this. It's indeed stable, but has a nasty suprise. The  
carbon window just stays in the corner. Sigh... The other window  
continues to respond to data.

On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:19 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> 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".
>
> _________________________________________________________
> 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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>> John Donker
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