[vtkusers] JOGL using vtkPanel on MacOS High Sierra

[John L. Papp]

Hello All,

I've recently had to port a java wrapped VTK install to MacOSX High 
Sierra.  After extensive web searches, any Java JDK above 1.6 is missing 
some of the AWT libraries on which vtkPanel and such rely.  Instead, it 
was recommended to use JOGL.  I was able to compile VTK 8.2.0 with JOGL 
(I think) and the latest OpenJDK, which I think is version 12, but I can 
only go as high as 1.8 in the cmake input.  Anyway, the only interface 
is through vtkJoglPanelComponent and vtkJoglCanvasComponent.  There was 
talk about a vtkJoglPanel and vtkJoglCanvas that would wrap these other 
classes but these don't seem to be available in the 8.2.0 release.  I 
would like to avoid having to re-write my vtkPanel extended classes as 
I'm using a lot of the JPanel class functions that seem to be 
unavailable to the vtkJoglPanelComponent class. Is there a vtkJoglPanel 
class floating around or that just isn't the way things are done now.  
Perhaps it's as simple as replacing the renderer stored in vtkPanel with 
one from vtkJogPanelComponent, judging from what is done in in the 
JoglConeRendering example.  But, I'm not sure if this is the best way to 
do it, especially if someone else has already figured it out.  I've been 
avoiding upgrading past VTK 4.x because of these issues but am now at a 
point where it can't be helped.

Thanks for any help,

John

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