[vtkusers] Getting started with Java in VTK

[Jonathan Morra]

Thanks for the info, I'll have a look, also I found the following site which
is helping a lot
http://ij-plugins.sourceforge.net/vtk-examples/index.html

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Luke Dodd <i.like.bread at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is possible. Take a look at the vtk.vtkPanel and vtk.vtkCanvas
> classes. They are awt components, you can - with some caveats put them
> in a swing GUI like any other swing component.
>
> There are methods to get the renderer - so you can add things to it,
> and to paint so you can see the results. I think vtkPanel is the base
> class and vtkCanvas extends this with more functionality. I'd say look
> at the source of each and figure out what you need - they implement
> certain interaction behaviours and forward certain awt events to vtk
> interactors.
>
> There is not much documentation for this, but the source code is not
> too hard to read.
>
> (Sorry for sending again Jonathan, but I hit reply instead of reply
> all - it's good to get this on the list for others to see)
>
> Best Regards,
> Luke Dodd
>
> On 5 October 2010 21:33, Jonathan Morra <jonmorra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm new to VTK and am interested in writing a very simple medical image
> > viewer that can view a 3D volume at three orthogonal planes and have the
> > user click around on various planes to navigate through the data.  I was
> > able to get VTK compiling and examples running in Java, however I'm
> unsure
> > how to get the native VTK windows to interact with Java swing.  Ideally,
> I'd
> > like there to be no VTK windows, and have everything live inside of Swing
> > components.  Can anyone point me to some example code or good reading to
> > help getting started with this in Java?
> > Thanks
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