[vtkusers] AWT + SWT + Event Loops (was Re: VTK6 and Java Cone Example 5)

[Ric Wright]

Sean, 

You're right.  But OTOH, I did build the VTK in XCOde and then pulled up
the Example/GUI Xcode project (Examples/GUI/Cocoa).  Unfortunately, the
project doesn't match its own documentation.  It says point the project at
the VTK/include project.  But there isn't one - there are a couple of
dozen (I love C++ :-).  That can be resolved (slowly) but the project is
also looking for all the lib files to be .a (static) libs.  But the VTK
project builds dylibs (which is the right way, IMO).

I'm sure all this can be resolved, but it's a lot of learning curves and
tool fiddling.  This isn't my job, it's my hobby. As I said before, it's a
tradeoff - climb the VTK hill and benefit from the work you guys have
done, or stick with what I have got - which works.  I'll be probably keep
going because I hate giving up ;-)

Thanks
Ric


On 8/14/13 1:50 PM, "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:53:02 -0700, rkwright said:
>
>>It may be that the message is stop fighting and accept
>>using Xcode.  Is that what you work in?  Xcode and Objective C/C++?
>
>Well, "it depends" of course, on what you're doing, why, etc., etc.  But
>VTK is written in C++, support for other languages is well-supported but
>is an extra layer.  Similarly, Java has fallen out of favour with Apple,
>and not included by default anymore.  Using a 3rd party Java (7) and 3rd
>party development environment (Eclipse) are likely to be less smooth than
>using OS vendor supplied languages (C/C++/Obj-C) and tools (ie Xcode).
>But it all depends.  YMMV.
>
>Cheers,
>
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>Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
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