[vtkusers] Issues with picking in VTK Java on Mac OS X
Sebastien Jourdain
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com
Fri Feb 3 18:07:11 EST 2017
Does the sample application that get build in vtk.jar with the box widget
works?
Meaning you can grab the control balls to resize the box?
The main is vtk.sample.rendering.JoglConeRendering
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:
> OK I have finally successfully rebuilt VTK with Java support from
> git/master (details in below thread that I left off of the list), but
> unfortunately both Picking issues still exist:
>
> * vtkJoglPanelComponent.getRenderWindowInteractor().GetEventPosition()
> still returns bogus y values (e.g. >1300 for a window of height 700)
> * once the above is addressed via previously described workaround, VTK
> still thinks that I clicked halfway between where I actually clicked and
> the lower left corner of the window (as demonstrated in this video:
> http://sendvid.com/yqz1qww2)
>
> So unfortunately Sebastien's commit didn't solve my issues.
>
> I'm testing on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) with OSX
> Yosemite 10.10.5, but have experienced the same behavior on other Macs.
>
> Any other ideas? Any information that I can provide that would be helpful?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
> On 02/03/2017 12:41 PM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>
> can you try on git/master? I remember something about the wrapper that was
> buggy at some point.
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm running into some compilation issues trying to build the latest
>> version, both on the Mac and on Linux. Have you encountered this?
>>
>> VTK-7.1.0/build/java/vtk/sample/rendering/JoglConeRendering.java:77:
>> error: cannot find symbol
>> scalarBar.GetScalarBarActor().SetTitle("Example");
>> ^
>> symbol: method GetScalarBarActor()
>> location: variable scalarBar of type vtkScalarBarWidget
>>
>> I'm using the latest JOGL jars, 2.3, specifying paths to jogl-all.jar and
>> gluegen-rt.jar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> On 02/02/2017 09:35 AM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>
>> We have, and our dashboard were producing them for a while, but when we
>> switch to buildbot all that went away.
>>
>> In fact, I would even love to publish them to maven but never get funding
>> support for it. And very few people at Kitware know how to deal with Java.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, OK, I didn't actually build the libraries (one of my colleagues
>>> did), I just looked in my VTK lib folder on the Mac and there were files
>>> named, for example, "libvtkalglib-7.0.1.dylib", so that's where I got 7.0.1
>>> from. But they were built right around July 2016 so I imagine that they
>>> don't include the fix! I'll report back tomorrow once I figure out how to
>>> build it on a Mac. I'm not sure which OS the Mac I'm using for testing is
>>> but I imagine that it's not Sierra as it's a couple years old and likely
>>> has not been kept up to date. I'm a Linux user and not up to date on
>>> anything Mac related. Will report back tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Have you guys ever considered releasing binaries of VTK-Java? Would be
>>> really helpful!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/2/2017 9:23 AM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems like 7.1.0 does have my change but not 7.0.0. Which make me
>>> think it might be a Sierra issue if you are using 7.1 not 7.0.1 since the
>>> latter does not exist.
>>>
>>> Which OS are you on? (When you will get back to it ;-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Sebastien!
>>>>
>>>> I'm not near a Mac today but will try rebuilding tomorrow to see if
>>>> your fix does the trick. I'm currently on 7.0.1, is your patch included in
>>>> the 7.1 release or should I check out the latest dev version? I'll report
>>>> back to the list when I find out if it works.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/1/2017 4:58 PM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> The issue seems to be related to the retina display and maybe macOS
>>>> sierra.
>>>>
>>>> Which version of VTK are you using? I know that I fixed some picking
>>>> issue on mac with retina display before Sierra.
>>>>
>>>> The change I'm talking about is:
>>>>
>>>> commit b6df993770cfcd9a69a48a2730415a992d698c5b
>>>>> Author: Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>
>>>>> Date: Fri Jul 8 09:45:58 2016 -0400
>>>>> Fix VTK/Java JOGL
>>>>>
>>>>> - Update JOGL version to 2.32
>>>>> - Update documentation on how to download the JOGL jars with Maven
>>>>> - Add support for Retina display
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ideally, you should make sure you have this commit in your VTK and that
>>>> is working on system older than Sierra. Then if Sierra is the issue, I
>>>> think more advanced debugging may be require. Although, VTK compiled on an
>>>> older OS should work just fine on Sierra.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you find out more about it.
>>>>
>>>> Seb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello. I develop a VTK Java application for visualizing georeferenced
>>>>> earthquake data, SCEC-VDO (http://scecvdo.usc.edu/). One of the
>>>>> important features of this software is the ability to click on elements of
>>>>> the 3D view to perform actions or view information. This works perfectly on
>>>>> Windows and Linux, but does not work on Macs. I believe that this is due to
>>>>> an internal bug in the Mac version of VTK. We use the vtkJoglPanelComponent
>>>>> to embed the 3D view into our Java application.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the code that I use to pick items (where renderWindow is a
>>>>> vtkJoglPanelComponent):
>>>>>
>>>>> renderWindow.getComponent().addMouseListener(new
>>>>> MouseAdapter() {
>>>>> public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
>>>>> int[] clickPos = renderWindow.getRenderWindowIn
>>>>> teractor().GetEventPosition();
>>>>>
>>>>> int x = clickPos[0];
>>>>> int y = clickPos[1];
>>>>>
>>>>> cellPicker.Pick(x, y, 0, renderWindow.getRenderer());
>>>>> if (cellPicker.GetActor() != null) {
>>>>> // do stuff
>>>>> ...
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>> });
>>>>>
>>>>> The first bug is that the y value of getRenderWindowInteractor().GetEventPosition()
>>>>> is just flat out wrong on the Mac (correct on Windows and Linux). For
>>>>> example, if I click near the top of my window with height 700, if will give
>>>>> me a y value that is greater than 1300! It should actually be very small,
>>>>> as y should be zero at the top of the window and 700 at the bottom of the
>>>>> window. I can get around this, and make it match the position on
>>>>> Linux/Windows with the following fix using the mouseEvent (e) and the
>>>>> height of the 3D view component:
>>>>>
>>>>> int height = renderWindow.getComponent().getHeight();
>>>>> int calcY = (height - e.getY()) - 1;
>>>>> int x = e.getX();
>>>>> int y = calcY;
>>>>>
>>>>> Now when I click on a location in the 3D viewer, the x/y coordinates
>>>>> match the results on Linux/Windows. But picking actors still doesn't work.
>>>>> Instead, VTK thinks that I have clicked somewhere roughly between where I
>>>>> actually clicked and the bottom left corner. So if I click on the top right
>>>>> corner of the viewer, it thinks that I clicked in the middle. If I click on
>>>>> the top left, if thinks that I clicked middle left. If I click on the
>>>>> middle of the viewer, it thinks that I clicked 1/4 up and right of the
>>>>> lower left corner. I have posted a video which demonstrates this bug:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://sendvid.com/yqz1qww2
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>>>>>
>>>>> In this video, whatever actor is clicked turns red. This works as
>>>>> expected on Windows/Linux, both with and without the x/y fix mentioned
>>>>> above. Without the previous fix on a Mac, the behavior is similar but
>>>>> centered around the top left corner and sometimes doesn't detect clicks at
>>>>> all (due to y values which make no sense).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas what could be going on? I have experienced this behavior on
>>>>> all 4 Mac's on which I have tried the software.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Kevin Milner
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