[vtkusers] vtkRendererWindow does not respond

[cvolz]

Dear VTK-Users,

perhaps someone can help me to understand the vtkRenderWindow or/and the 
vtkRenderWindowInteractor.

I have got a numerical console application which opens a vtkRenderWindow 
to display its results in realtime. I use a vtkRenderWindowInteractor so 
that the user can adjust his view at the beginning of the simulation. 
Afterwards, the simulation is started and just piplines the new results 
from time to time to this vtk window.

This works fine while am executing my application from the IDE (Visual 
Studio). The vtkWindow does never get the focus, it is only rendered new 
from time to time. This is my desired behaviour.

But when I start my application without the IDE this no longer works. 
When the user has adjusted his view and the simulation starts, than the 
vtkWindow strangely seems to get focus back and does no longer show my 
results. Instead it is "not responding".

What can be the cause of these different behaviours? And how do I 
prevent the vtkWindow from not responding ?

With best regards,

Christian Volz


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Christian Volz
ETH Zürich
VA f. Wasserbau/Hydrologie/Glaziologie
VAW B 6.1
Gloriastrasse 37/39
8092 Zürich

Telefon: +41 44 632 54 12
E-Mail: volz at vaw.baug.ethz.ch