[vtkusers] About MouseEvents.py example

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-06-17 14:12 GMT+02:00 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:37 AM, Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
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>> I'm also curious, if you don't mind me asking: Have you used a lot of
>> PyQt+VTK? If so, did you use the interactor style system or did you forego
>> using it completely?
>>
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> I used PyQt with VTK extensively from 2002 until 2007, and occasionally
> since then.  I hardly ever use the VTK interactors, only when writing
> quick-and-dirty test applications.  I prefer an "event" to be an object.
>

And just so I get you right: With "an object" you mean as in, an object
with event information as attributes, e.g. like in Qt's event system,
instead of as in VTK where it's just an enum value, and you have to call
various functions to get the event information? If so I agree.

Elvis


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> Since I don't use vtkInteractorStyle (which is the main place where a
> person would want to override a virtual method) you can probably guess why
> the lack of virtual overrides in the Python wrappers doesn't bother me much.
>
>  - David
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