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

[John Donker]

The carbon vtk view doesn't respond to mouse clicks. But the wx  
windows does. The wxWindow will cause the carbonview to react.  (I can  
rotate the model, etc)
On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:39 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> John Donker
>>>>> j
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> John Donker
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>> j.h.donker at student.utwente.nl (studie)
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John Donker
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j.h.donker at wortelschijf.nl (werk)
j.h.donker at student.utwente.nl (studie)