[vtkusers] Interaction Window Not Catching Keyboard Events

[David Gobbi]

Hi Anna,

For an OS X program to receive all events, it must be part of an app
bundle.  If you're using cmake to build your program, this is done like so:

add_executable(program MACOSX_BUNDLE ${source_files})

 - David


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Anna Danko <annamdanko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to extract part of a mesh with VTK. In particular I am hoping
> to use vtkInteractorStyleRubberBandPick.  However, the VTK Interaction
> window does not catch some keyboard events. I am able to shift+click to
> drag, ctrl+click to rotate and shift+ctrl+click to zoom, but if I press
> down on any other key, such as ‘r’, my input gets sent to the terminal
> instead of entering selection mode. This problem is present not only in my
> own code but for all the examples  I tried (and it isn't working when I try
> to use vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera either).
>
> I did find that by modifying the SimpleCocoaVTK.xcodeproj example, I was
> able to get the rubber band pick to work the vtkCocoaRenderWindowInteractor.
> However I would rather not have to use Cocoa.
>
> I would greatly appreciate help in learning possible reasons why the
> interaction window does not catch these events. I have no issues during
> compilation and everything seems to be called ok.  I am using a Mac OS
> 10.12 (recently updated, but it wasn’t working with 10.10 either), VTK 6.1
> and I am using Xcode 7.2.1 to build.
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Anna
>
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