[vtkusers] VTK 6.2 and PyQt5?

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-02-04 19:01 GMT+01:00 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> Hi Elvis,
>
> You should be able to copy the QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py from
> the VTK master branch into your project (even rename it if you like) and
> then use it with any version of VTK.
>
> Just replace the two try/except blocks at the top of the file with this:
>
>     PyQtImpl = "PyQt5" # or "PyQt4" or "PySide"
>     QVTKRWIBase = "QWidget" # or "QGLWidget"
>
> You can think of this script as an example that that you can grab and
> and modify to suit your own purposes.
>

Excellent. I was starting to suspect it was that simple. Thanks for
confirming.

Elvis


>
>  - David
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have the same question as Alex on this list had in April last year:
>>
>>    http://markmail.org/message/i3e4dxwxqravlaf3
>>
>> Is it possible to use PyQt5 with VTK 6.2?
>>
>> I'm on a *buntu system, and the python-vtk6 package installs the
>> following Qt related files:
>>
>> estan at newton:~$ dpkg -L python-vtk6 | grep -i qt
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/qt4
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/qt4/QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/qt4/__init__.py
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/
>> vtkRenderingQtPython.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/vtkRenderingQt.py
>>
>> ldd on the .so shows it is linking against Qt 5, but is that enough. Or
>> must I have a QVTKRenderWindowInteractor that works with PyQt5 as well? It
>> seems a port of that class to PyQt5 was done only 5 months ago:
>>
>>    https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/101
>>
>> So would not be in 6.2 :/
>>
>> Are there really no software out there which uses PyQt5 + VTK and only
>> make use of packaged versions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Elvis
>>
>>
>
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