[vtkusers] Issues with picking in VTK Java on Mac OS X

Tue Feb 14 17:41:24 EST 2017

Thanks Kevin,

could you send me the exact exception/stack trace that you are getting on
linux?

Thanks,

Seb

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Kevin Milner <kmilner at usc.edu> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for their help! So I finally have everything figured
> out. It turns out that Sebastien's fix (commit
> b6df993770cfcd9a69a48a2730415a992d698c5b) does indeed fix the problem
> with picking on retina displays. When I noticed a discrepancy between the
> reported click position and the JFrame size, I implemented a fix to what I
> thought was a bug, but actually defeated Sebastien's fix. So I can now
> confirm that the current git/master version works successfully on both
> retina and non-retina Macs.
>
> One note about the fix though is that it uses the "scale" field in
> GraphicsDevice, which is accessed via Java reflection, and does not exist
> in my linux distribution. This causes an exception to be dumped to the
> console every time I click in the 3D viewer. I just commented out the
> e.printStackTrace(); at line 382 of vtk.rendering.vtkInteractorForwarder
> to remove the excessive printing. You should probably fix that before the
> next release. Other possible ways to detect a retina display/scale factor
> which might not have the linux issue are discussed here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14716743/how-can-i-
> detect-whether-a-mac-has-a-retina-display-from-java
>
> Thanks much for the help!
> Kevin
>
>
> On 02/10/2017 06:05 PM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I finally build VTK on my mac (macOS Sierra 10.12.3 - 16D32)
>
> I can run vtk.sample.Demo with the usual external window issue except on
> that time the actual rendering window is half the size of the actual
> JFrame.
>
> For the Jogl I get a segfault right away.
>
> $ java -cp vtk-7.1.jar:/Users/seb/.m2/repository/org/jogamp/gluegen/
> gluegen-rt/2.3.2/gluegen-rt-2.3.2.jar:/Users/seb/.m2/
> repository/org/jogamp/jogl/jogl-all/2.3.2/jogl-all-2.3.2.jar
> -Djava.library.path=$PWD/natives-Darwin-x86_64/ vtk.sample.rendering.
> JoglConeRendering
> #
> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
> #
> #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x000000012cdaeb99, pid=51716, tid=7171
> #
> # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b17) (build
> 1.8.0_25-b17)
> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode
> bsd-amd64 compressed oops)
> # Problematic frame:
> # C  [libawt_lwawt.dylib+0x44b99]  JNI_OnLoad+0x91
> #
> # Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core
> dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
> #
> # An error report file with more information is saved as:
> # /Users/seb/Documents/code/VTK/install/hs_err_pid51716.log
> #
> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
> #   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bugreport.sun.com_bugreport_crash.jsp&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ut0P5Kplo2cIO9V0et1UBQ&m=cpXdD9Shwlw-tbBdzMG5o9U9ZIq7Zn7bL3WkZ_xxvmk&s=xF95XsSLi5_QuJhTNA_YMjO19Br-tB5i36_ifgJd0iI&e=>
> # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
> # See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
> #
> Abort trap: 6
>
> I don't know if the issue come from jogl or VTK with macOS Sierra.
>
> Anyway, wanted to let you know,
>
> Seb
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:10:03 -0800, Kevin Milner said:
>>
>> >Any ideas on how to get this working on new Macs?
>>
>> So you have 2 differences now: different OS version, different screens
>> (Retina vs not).  You should try to eliminate one.  You can force a
>> non-Retina to act like a retina with Quartz Debug:
>>
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/G
>> raphicsAnimation/Conceptual/HighResolutionOSX/Testing/Testing.html
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__developer.apple.com_library_content_documentation_GraphicsAnimation_Conceptual_HighResolutionOSX_Testing_Testing.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ut0P5Kplo2cIO9V0et1UBQ&m=cpXdD9Shwlw-tbBdzMG5o9U9ZIq7Zn7bL3WkZ_xxvmk&s=0iUBZa-RgXAC9Xhb0drglax92fWfwGGTj-Uc7CM4VQE&e=>
>> >
>>
>> and/or upgrade that Mac from 10.9 (which BTW doesn't get security updates
>> anymore) to something newer.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
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