[vtkusers] VTK6 and Java Cone Example 5

[Sebastien Jourdain]

BTW, I've noticed you are using some SWT code. You should use the existing
SWT component available in latest VTK.



On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> Are you using Java 6 from Apple or Java 7 from Oracle ?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Ric Wright <rkwright at geofx.com> wrote:
>
>> An update on this.  I ported over some of my other Eclipse work and
>> adapted it to VTK.  It is pushed to my account on github and there is a
>> writeup here:  http://rkwright.github.io/geofx-pages/vtkview.html.
>>  There are 3 articles in there.  The latest rev of the code is here:
>> https://github.com/rkwright/vtkscene in the develop branch.
>>
>> Mostly, it works great.  However, when I tried the fifth cone example,
>> which has the problematic vtkRenderWindowInteractor, I ran into similar
>> problems as before.  I instantiated it with a valid vtkPanel.RenderWindow
>> but it still goes off into the ozone, sometimes crashing the native
>> vtkOpenGL dylib.
>>
>> I'm going to skip the interactor for now and move on to see if I run into
>> more problems. If not, I can probably live without that widget but the
>> problems there might be symptomatic of deeper problems on OSX 64 bit
>> systems.
>>
>> Any further suggestions would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ric
>>
>>
>> From: Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:56 AM
>> To: Ric Wright <rkwright at geofx.com>
>> Cc: Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>, vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK6 and Java Cone Example 5
>>
>> In Java you should use the Java specific classes anyway like
>> vtkPanel/vtkCanvas or the new version of them used in the vtk.sample
>> package of the vtk.jar...
>>
>> The purpose of those example was to show the possible match between the
>> different languages...
>>
>> Nothing more I believe,
>>
>> Seb
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Ric Wright <rkwright at geofx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, OK.  Well, I don't know what to do here.  Is this happening to
>>> others?
>>>  Should I file a bug?  Just try to work around it by not using
>>> RenderWindowInteractors (sounds kind of lame).  Or?
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ric
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/5/13 4:15 PM, "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:10:55 -0500, Ric Wright said:
>>> >
>>> >>Well, a little playing around didn't seem to help, but I am frankly not
>>> >>an
>>> >>expert on threads.  However, it seems to me that the source of the
>>> >>problem
>>> >>is that the vtkRenderWindowInteractor gets initialized then the start()
>>> >>method creates an event loop that is monitored by the
>>> >>vtkRenderWindowInteractor.  I suspect that start() method spawns a new
>>> >>thread to listen to the events and it is the spawning of that thread
>>> that
>>> >>causes the exception.
>>> >
>>> >VTK's Cocoa classes never create any threads.
>>> >
>>> >Cheers,
>>> >
>>> >--
>>> >____________________________________________________________
>>> >Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>>> >Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>>> >Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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