[vtkusers] GUISupport python wrappers?

[David Gobbi]

Hi Amos,

The GUI toolkits are not part of the VTK wrappers.  The Python Qt GUI,
for example, is called PyQt, and you have to download it from its own
website.

 - David


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Amos Anderson
<amos.anderson at protabit.com> wrote:
> Hello VTK Users --
>
> How to I get GUISupport python wrappers in vtk 6? I can find a lot of testing/example python code that uses them (e.g. in GUISupport/Qt/Testing/Python) but my vtkpython doesn't have them:
>
>
>> vtkpython
>>>> import vtk
>>>> vtk.QVTKWidget2()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'QVTKWidget2'
>
>
>
> VTK6.0.0> ls Wrapping/Python/vtk/qt4
> QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.pyc  QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
> __init__.pyc                    __init__.py
>
>
>
> Here's how I'm compiling VTK:
>
> $(CMAKE) -DVTK_WRAP_PYTHON:BOOL=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=$(PYTHON)/bin/python -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=$(PYTHON)/include/python2.7 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=$(PYTHON)/lib/libpython2.7.dylib -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=$(QMAKE) -DModule_vtkGUISupportQt:BOOL=ON -DModule_vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL:BOOL=ON
>
>
> is there an option I'm missing? Or is this something that will be fixed in the next version of VTK? (when will that be?)
>
> Thanks!
> Amos.