[vtkusers] Is VTK 5.10.1 compatible with MacOS 10.8.3 and Java?

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:47:24 +0200, Marco Sambin said:

>Just to ensure I have the correct understanding, regarding my first
>question below, the current build of VTK 6 is still incompatible with Java
>7 on Mac (according to my understanding, Java 7 on Mac uses CALayer JAWT
>embedding, while Java 6 uses NSView-based JAWT embedding)?

I know next to nothing about Java, but this does ring a bell.

I can tell you for sure that VTK renders into an NSView, and that nothing in VTK uses CALayer.

Having VTK support drawing into something other than an NSView could be interesting, but would be non-trivial and should be proceeded by a discussion.  It would be good to know exactly what Java 7 would require.

Cheers,

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