[vtkusers] How to close an open vtk-Window by program-code

[André Prins]

Dear Bill,

Just a question about the TerminateApp() method. The name suggests
that it will "kill the app". When I look at the implementation of the
vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor it calls PostQuitMessage( 0 )... does
this kill the thread or the application?

Sometimes I wish to close the vtk-window and then reopen another one.
Will this still work with TerminateApp()

Regards,
Andre

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about: iren->TerminateApp();
>
> TerminateApp() notifies the event loop to exit.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:22 PM, André Prins <a.h.prins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear David & Rainer,
>>
>> I have had success with calling Finalize() on the RenderWindow. What I
>> usually do is wrap a RenderWindow and Interactor in a simple
>> viewer-class, which can be constructed on the stack and which has a
>> "close" method. In there I simply call window->Finalize(). However I
>> just tried it on your CloseWindow example... It does close/remove the
>> window, but the event-loop keeps running.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andre
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> SetRenderWindow(NULL)  works for me.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Try
>>>>>  iren->SetRenderWindow(NULL);
>>>>> rather than
>>>>> iren->GetRenderWindow()->Delete();
>>>>
>>>> Once SetRenderWindow(NULL) is performed, it crashes as soon as the
>>>> window is attempted to be updated.
>>>>
>>>> Rainer - did you ever get this to work?
>>>>
>>>> Alex - was that just a thought that you recommended or have you done
>>>> this using Delete()?
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
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