[vtkusers] PyQt SIP wrapping test fails

[Clinton Stimpson]

Ok, then that would explain why my git bisect gave me an odd commit that had 
nothing to do with it.

Thanks,
Clint

On Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:49:30 am David Gobbi wrote:
> I've seen the same thing with the PyQt wrapping.  Sometimes it works,
> and sometimes it doesn't.  Whenever it doesn't work for me, I've
> always just thought that I had misconfigured something since I'm not
> very familiar with PyQt.
> 
> And I don't think this is a release-versus-master issue.  The python
> wrapping code in the release is the same as in the master.  The only
> difference that I found was a very minor one:
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=1d172b23b7f259404d68e68fb62a
> 262cdd2fa5c2
> 
>  - David
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> > Hey Clinton,
> > 
> > Thanks for trying it out. I did the "it never works, but I might as well
> > try" stab at rebuilding with an updated Qt, Sip, PyQt, CMake & VTK last
> > Friday and now it works again for whatever reason...
> > 
> > (Qt 4.7.3, sip 4.12.4, PyQt 4.8.5, CMake dev head, VTK dev head)
> > 
> > -Eric
> > 
> > On Aug 31, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 06:50:56 am Eric E. Monson wrote:
> >>> Hey all,
> >>> 
> >>> Is anyone able to successfully run TestQVTKWidget.py with the current
> >>> development VTK version? I don't think any dashboards cover it and I
> >>> get:
> >>> 
> >>> ERROR: testQVTKWidget (__main__.TestQVTKWidget)
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>  File "TestQVTKWidget.py", line 22, in testQVTKWidget
> >>>    w2.SetRenderWindow(win2)
> >>> TypeError: QVTKWidget.SetRenderWindow(): argument 1 has unexpected type
> >>> 'vtkobject'
> >>> 
> >>> I hadn't updated VTK since May, and decided to do so yesterday. Some of
> >>> the new ContextInteractorStyle Charts stuff broke the way I set up
> >>> charts with PyQt4 (using QVTKRenderWindowInteractor), and I couldn't
> >>> fix it, so I thought I'd check how hard it would be to switch over to
> >>> the QVTKWidget, but I can't get the test or my other examples to
> >>> run...
> >>> 
> >>> My (Py)Qt stuff may be out of date, so I could update if anyone thought
> >>> that would help: OS X 10.6.8, system Python 2.6.1, Qt 4.7.0 (from
> >>> source, cocoa, x86_64), PyQt 4.8.1, sip 4.11.2.
> >> 
> >> It doesn't work for me anymore either.  It works in the release branch
> >> though.
> >> 
> >> As for the dashboard coverage, Jeff Baumes would know the status of
> >> that.
> >> 
> >> I did a git bisect to see which commit caused the problem, but its not
> >> obvious why that commit caused the problem.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Clinton Stimpson
> >> Elemental Technologies, Inc
> >> Computational Simulation Software, LLC
> >> www.csimsoft.com
> > 
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Clinton Stimpson
Elemental Technologies, Inc
Computational Simulation Software, LLC
www.csimsoft.com