[vtkusers] Keyboard and mouse interaction on OSX

[Bill Lorensen]

When you link your app, make sure you specify MACOSX_BUNDLE

For example:

add_executable(RandomProbe MACOSX_BUNDLE RandomProbe)


Bill


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Xavier Tricoche <xmt at purdue.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd be curious to know the status of the keyboard and mouse interaction
> support in VTK on OSX. Basically my experience has been that many widgets
> don't work properly on macs (vtkSliderWidget is one notable exception) and
> that keyboard events (caught, e.g., through proper observers) are never
> passed on.
>
> I remember reading on the Wiki that a solution to this problem (a
> workaround, rather) was to create bundled apps but that does not apply to
> programs with command line options or python scripts.
>
> I am using VTK (5.10.1) in my graduate visualization class (I have been
> for a while) and the increasing popularity of both macs and python among my
> students make that a pretty distracting issue from a logistical standpoint.
> Some students have to run VTK on a Linux virtual machine to complete
> projects on their macs.
>
> Hence, I'd be most thankful for any information I can obtain as to what is
> causing these issues and whether there are concrete plans to address them.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Xavier
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