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

[John Donker]

To make it clearer i've put some screenshot online. http://wortelschijf.student.utwente.nl/vtk/
The first one happens with Cocoa, the second with Carbon.

On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:25 AM, John Donker wrote:

> 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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John Donker
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