Re: [K3d-development] Using k3d from an application

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Fred Labrosse wrote:
> Timothy M. Shead writes:
>  > 
>  > If you're looking for more fine-grained control, you can embed K-3D in 
>  > your application - look in the k3d/application directory, where you will 
>  > see that the K-3D application is simply an executable "wrapper" around 
>  > libk3dsdk.  At this point, linking with libk3dsdk is pulling in the GTK+ 
>  > user interface, which we are working (long term) to separate, but you 
>  > can still hide it (or not) according to your needs.
>  > 
> 
> This is exactly what I need to do.  I can see one problems however.  I
> normally use QT and not gtk+, which means that if I want to allow any kind
> of user interaction with the k3d part, I'll have to start the event loop,
> preventing me to start the QT event loop.  Could this be solved by having
> them in 2 different threads?

I've often wondered if this type of interaction (an app using both 
toolkits) was possible.  I *will* guarantee that multithreading is not 
the answer ... the trick in your case would be to run the GTK+ event 
loop periodically, say from an idle-handler in the main Qt event loop. 
You should be able to do this by calling sdpGtkHandlePendingEvents().

I'll be really interested to hear how FrankenK3D works ...

Tim