[vtkusers] Using vtkLineWidget2 with PyQt

[Oliver Natt]

Dear vtkusers,

I found a solution to my problem: The problem is obviously caused by
python's garbage  collector. If I assign the vtkLineWidget2 to an
instance variable of the class MainWindow, it works as expected. The
same issue happens with other vtkWidgets, too.

I am interested to understand, why this actually happens. It is not a
problem for the vtkActor but only for the vtk...Widget. Something must
be fundamentally different between those classes which causes that the
vtk...Widget is garbage-collected although it is still needed by vtk.

Best regards,
Oliver


Am 15.12.2017 um 12:02 schrieb Oliver Natt:
> Dear vtkusers,
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> for some reason, I cannot manage to get a vtkLineWidget2 working in
> one of my PyQt-applications. Interestingly, the same code works well
> in a regular vtk-window. Please find attaced two python scripts. The
> first script "linewidget2_noQt.py" works exactly as expected: A yellow
> cylinder and the line widget is rendered. I can also interact with the
> widget by dragging the endpoints with the mouse. However, the same
> code embedded into a Qt-Window (cf. linewidget2_qt.py) does not work:
> The yellow cylinder is shown, but the line widget is missing.
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> Do you have any suggestions how to get the vtkLineWidget2 working in a
> PyQt-application?
>
> Best regards,
> Oliver
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