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

John Donker j.h.donker at home.nl
Thu Oct 16 05:43:12 EDT 2008


The problem is quite annoying and it would be nice if there was fix  
for it. Since we are aiming at a cross platform application. (The  
whole reason we chose VTK+WX+python)

On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:02 AM, John Donker <j.h.donker at home.nl>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2008, at 1:08 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> You will need to "Rez" the compiled executable although on Leopard  
>>> that is
>>> deprecated I believe. Did you write your own "main()" method? If  
>>> so you can
>>> try the following:
>>>
>> There is one problem with this approach I am accesing VTK with  
>> Python. So I
>> could try to rez the python executable?
>
> John,
>
>  You cannot use the cocoa framework from python. If you get the
> source code of wxPython, you'll see that the wxPyGetWinHandle function
> always return the Carbon handle (static cast).
>  I maintained the wxVTK at http://wxvtk.sf.net and even from C++ this
> is not easy (or I could not get it right).
>
> 2cts
> -- 
> Mathieu

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







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