Re: [wxVTK] [vtkusers] Anyone using wxVTK wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor wxWidgets VTK class?

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Hi Sander,

  Wow ! That is fantastic, thank you so much for the patch !
  Can I ask just one quick question, about the OnKeyUp/OnChar thingy.
Did you notice that capital letter were being passed ?

  Patch will be merged tonight.

Thanks again,
-Mathieu

On 8/22/07, Sander Niemeijer <nie...@st...> wrote:
> At our company we are currently using the wxVTK package.
>
> We use wxWidgets/VTK for the development of an ESA-funded open-source
> application called VISAN (part of the BEAT toolbox: http://
> www.stcorp.nl/beat).
> The current public available version of VISAN uses some hand-crafted
> wxVTK bridge with Python bindings, but internally we have now moved
> to wxPython 2.8, VTK 5 and wxVTK (since we moved more stuff to C++
> and wanted to include support for Gtk2 and Mac OS X Carbon). We are
> now able to create working binaries for Windows, Linux (Gtk2), and
> Mac OS X (Carbon). A new release of VISAN with these changes is due
> in September.
>
> In order to get things to work we had to patch the wxVTK sources.
> Attached you will find the patch that we used.
> The primary change that we made in order to get wxVTK to work with
> wxWidgets 2.8 was to move back to using wxGLCanvas again (i.e. remove
> the '#if (!wxCHECK_VERSION(2, 8, 0))').
>
> The timer warning is something we haven't seen. But we are using our
> own interactor styles for most of our visualisations anyway, so that
> may be the reason.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sander Niemeijer
>
> On 21-aug-2007, at 16:59, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> > On 8/21/07, H. Johnson <mi...@fa...> wrote:
> >> All versions were the most recent as of Saturday 19 Aug 2007:
> >> wxVTK vers
> >> 1.2, VTK vers 5.03 from CVS, ActiveTcl 8.4.15, wxWidgets 2.6.4.
> >
> > Because I am lazy/overbook I think there are still some patch in the
> > wxVTK CVS that are not in any release unfortunately.
> > That's weird, I thought that the timer thingy bug only appear after
> > VTK 5.0. But I did it from the top of my head.
> >
> >> The timer warning is the only problem I have had, but haven't done
> >> anything but the examples.
> >
> > ok
> >
> >> I'm new to VTK so didn't know about the trackball thing, but sure
> >> enough
> >> if I hit 't' before doing anything else the problem never seems to
> >> appear.  Could you explain for this newbie a little about the
> >> trackball?  What mode am I in before I hit the 't'?
> >
> > Simply that VTK mimic typical behavior of such device. If you have
> > ever played games, you have two typical behavior either pointing the
> > joystick down will make you move down, and stop as soon as you
> > release. Or like in a plane you have to point down, and then point up
> > to stop the movement
> > (This is pretty badly explain, but I did my best, sorry. Hopefully you
> > did get the big picture).
> >
> >> Really important: Has anyone actually used the wxVTK bridge code on
> >> anything that went commercial?
> >
> > Not that I know of. Anyone on the ML to comment on that ? I think most
> > people using wxVTK are from academic background.
> > Furthermore Kitware is now officially supporting Qt and KWWidget so
> > for a comapny I think it make more sense to use those toolkits (IMHO).
> >
> >> Any chance that wxVTK will be upgraded
> >> for use with the 2.8 wxWidgets branch?
> >
> > Please send patch ;)
> > As far as I remember the bug was non-trivial, or require patching wx
> > itself. I was hoping that wx 2.8.1 would include a fix (this already
> > happen in the past on the 2.4.x branch)/ wx people are not extremely
> > serious people, when dealing with backward compatiblity.
> >
> >
> >> I'll try the other list, but it didn't look very active.
> >
> > Noone complains, because wxVTK is bug free :-P
> >
> >> Thanks for all your help.
> >
> >
> > -Mathieu
> >
> >
> > Old thread kept for history:
> >
> >> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >>> On 8/20/07, H. Johnson <mi...@fa...> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> I'm looking for a solution to build a VTK enabled GUI.  I'm
> >>>> pursuing a
> >>>> few different options, one of which is a VTK / wxWidgets
> >>>> combination.
> >>>>
> >>>> I built VTK from CVS last Saturday, and am using wxWidgets
> >>>> 2.6.4. in a
> >>>> VC6.0 C++ only (no Tcl) environment.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sample wxVTK file wxImagePlaneWidget compiles okay, and works
> >>>> for the
> >>>> most part,
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Please describe what is not working. Please include your version
> >>> of wxVTK.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> however whenever I click outside the box a vtkOutputWindow pops
> >>>> up and I
> >>>> get a
> >>>> vtkInteractorStyleJoystickCamera (0x0390AF88): Timer start fail
> >>>> message.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yup, you are using VTK 5.x alright. Take any example using the
> >>> Tcl RWI
> >>> (on UNIX) from VTK official, you'll be able to reproduce that.
> >>> I think VTK 5.0 should not produce this warning.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> So, two questions.  Does anyone know what the specific "Timer start
> >>>> fail" message is all about?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> When the API was upgraded, a bug was introduced. But I suspect no
> >>> one
> >>> saw it, as most people use another interactor style. Try the
> >>> trackball
> >>> one (press 't').
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> And more importantly, is the wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor as it
> >>>> is found
> >>>> at http://wxvtk.sourceforge.net/ a ROBUST solution to combining
> >>>> the two?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Absolutely not ! Trust me, and I know the main author of wxVTK (but
> >>> don't tell him that).
> >>>
> >>> Ok seriously, I don't mean to be offended here, but at least
> >>> describe
> >>> your issues here. It is not perfect (wxVTK does not work with latest
> >>> wxwidget 2.8.x) but I did work hard to get it working in the wx
> >>> 2.4.x
> >>> branch. 2.6.x should be ok on linux/win32.
> >>> As a side note you could have gotten a tons more answers on the
> >>> wxVTK
> >>> mailing list, where you'll find the most heavy users of this class:
> >>>
> >>> http://wxvtk.sf.net/
> >>> [scroll to the bottom of the page]
> >>>
> >>> -Mathieu
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks much,
> >>>>
> >>>> Henry
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Mathieu