[vtkusers] In OSX vtk window does not get the focus

[David Gobbi]

Hi Eleftherios,

On OS X the system python is properly set up to receive keyboard focus,
but the anaconda python is not.  In general, in order for a program to
receive keyboard events, it must be part of an app bundle, though I'm
sure there are exceptions.  I remember that many, many years ago it
was necessary to run "pythonw" to get a functional GUI app in python.

If you create a bundle for your python program, you can get keyboard
events regardless of whose python you use.

 - David



On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Eleftherios Garyfallidis <
garyfallidis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> In OSX using vtk 6 or vtk 5 installed from anaconda the window does not
> get the focus.
>
> This should be trivial to test. You can just run the hello world example
> and see it by yourself.
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Python/Cylinder
>
> We observed the same issue both with osx 10.9 and 10.11
>
> Best regards,
> Eleftherios
>
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