[vtkusers] New wiki Java examples

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately  no brave Java user did wrote some documentation on that.
BTW, you are welcome.

Seb

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Jim Peterson <jimcp at cox.net> wrote:
> Seb,
> Yes, the missing setVisible(true)  was it.  I see there is a
> vtkRenderWindowPanel that extends vtkCanvas. Are there any examples of how
> that would be used?  I had some success making my classes extend vtkCanvas
> and use the renderer renderwindow and interactor in the ancestor. I found I
> need to reset the camera to get a good initial view.
>
> thanks for all your help,
> Jim
>
> Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> on which system are you running, did you forget the following line ?
>>
>> frame.setVisible(true);
>>
>> On linux and Mac you may get an error due to the fact that in the
>> example all the swing code is not executed in the EDT. Which is bad...
>> ;-)
>> You can try to embed the code inside a SwingUtility.invokeLater(new
>> Runnable(){ .... });
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jim Peterson <jimcp at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Seb,
>>> My current problem is no example. I am using eclipse 3.5.2, and vtk
>>> 5.6.0.
>>> The non JPanel versions of vtk do work in my java environment.
>>> TestVTKCanvas
>>> does create a window with two panels in it, each displaying a cone, and
>>> each
>>> independent of the other it appears. VTKSample however, runs and
>>> terminates
>>> without any java window or panel displayed. I have no idea what to do to
>>> make it display an example similar to your cassandra forum how-to. there
>>> are
>>> no errors, just no display.
>>>
>>> any idea what the magic word is?
>>> thanks,
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>> I'm just saying that vtkCanvas/vtkPanel are classes that wrap a
>>>> renderwindow/renderer into a Java graphical component class which is
>>>> easier to use in the Java graphical world.
>>>>
>>>> You can give a look at
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.artenum.com/projects/cassandra/forum/how-to-use-eclipse-and-vtk
>>>>
>>>> And good luck,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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