[vtkusers] error loading libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.so

[David Gobbi]

Hi Giang,

The option VTK_Group_Tk:BOOL=ON must be set for Tkinter support.

 - David


On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Hoang Giang Bui <hgbk2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I got an error when I tried to run a VTK python example with Tkinter
> enabled
>
> I built VTK6.2.0 with Tcl/Tk 8.6.4 and Python 2.7.6. Executing the example
> python {VTK_DIR}/Examples/Modelling/Python/SpherePuzzle.py
>
> gives the error
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "SpherePuzzle.py", line 57, in <module>
>     rw = vtkTkRenderWindowInteractor(f1, width=400, height=400, rw=renWin)
>   File
> "/home/hbui/opt/vtk-6.2.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkTkRenderWindowInteractor.py",
> line 48, in __init__
>     vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets(master.tk)
>   File
> "/home/hbui/opt/vtk-6.2.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets.py",
> line 81, in vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets
>     interp.call('load', filename, pkgname)
> _tkinter.TclError: couldn't load file "
> libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets-6.2.so":
> libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets-6.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory
>
> The library libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets-6.2.so is not installed to the
> target folder. I have checked that this library exist in VTK-5.10.1 but
> somehow it is removed in VTK-6.2.0
>
> I looked into the vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets.py and I found out that the
> module name is required to load still has the same name
> modname = 'vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets'
>
> Which means it is not updated or some configure flags need to be set to
> enable libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets
>
> Any comments?
>
> Giang
>
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