[vtkusers] Get a VTKRender to draw inside an external QWidget (ver5) (or QOpenGLWidget)

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den tors 22 feb. 2018 kl 21:42 skrev Martijn Koopman <koopman.mk at gmail.com>:
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> Hi Steve,
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> I believe what you're looking for is  QVTKOpenGLWidget.
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> It is a subclass of QOpenGLWidget.
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> See https://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classQVTKOpenGLWidget.html

I came across this thread while trying to find a QOpenGLWidget based
VTK/PyQt5 widget.

Just want to ask: The QVTKOpenGLWidget suggested here is not available
from Python right? (since it's not a vtkObject).

The OP asked about Python, and I'm sort of in the same boat.

Elvis

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> Regards,
> Martijn
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> Op 22 feb. 2018 21:10 schreef "Steve Petruzza" <spetruzza at sci.utah.edu>:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have a QOpenGLWidget that draws using gl calls. I would like to use a VTK render to draw inside the same canvas.
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>> I tried to use a QVTKRenderWindowInteractor passing the canvas as parent, but the canvas starts flickering and I cannot see any rendering.
>> The same VTK render (using the same QVTKRenderWindowInteractor) works correctly in a separate vtkrenderwindow.
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>> Is there any simple way to just get the VTKRender to draw directly into the glRender loop of the canvas using the existing rendering window?
>> Or any other suggestions.
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>> I am using VTK 8.1.0 and Qt 5.10 and this QVTKRenderWindowInteractor: https://gitlab.kitware.com/alextsui05/vtk/blob/e9e9ffcfbbad68343a0782a1d9024735b7649a46/Wrapping/Python/vtk/qt5/QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py
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>> Thank you,
>> Steve
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