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

[Michael Jackson]

Not sure but I think you may be hitting the "Rez" issue where a carbon  
window will not respond to mouse clicks or anything else. Is that what  
you are experiencing?


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

On Oct 15, 2008, at 6:33 PM, John Donker wrote:

>
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> This is the private VTK discussion list.
>>>>>> Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
>>>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>>>> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John Donker
>>>> j
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> This is the private VTK discussion list.
>>>> Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>>>
>>
>> John Donker
>> j.h.donker at home.nl (thuis)
>> j.h.donker at wortelschijf.nl (werk)
>> j.h.donker at student.utwente.nl (studie)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> This is the private VTK discussion list.
>> Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>
> John Donker
> j.h.donker at home.nl (thuis)
> j.h.donker at wortelschijf.nl (werk)
> j.h.donker at student.utwente.nl (studie)
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This is the private VTK discussion list.
> Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers