<div dir="ltr">Nope. Same problem. Do you still get that with CVS HEAD of VTK, or are you snapped to the VTK-5-2 branch...?<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Bill Lorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Maybe my problem is different. When I try to interact with a tcl test<br>
like polyConn.tcl, I get:<br>
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ERROR: In /home/lorensen/Projects/VTK/Rendering/vtkInteractorStyle.cxx, line 392<br>
vtkInteractorStyleJoystickCamera (0xa0129e8): Timer start failed<br>
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This is a fedora core 9 system, gcc 4.3.<br>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, David Cole <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> There is interaction available if you call "iren Start" at the bottom of<br>
> your tcl script to push an X event loop sponsored by the<br>
> vtkRenderWindowInteractor.<br>
> The remaining problem is that on other platforms (Windows with ActiveState<br>
> Tcl, for example) the vtk.exe Tcl/Tk event loop is running and enabling<br>
> interaction without any "iren Start" at the bottom of the tcl script. So<br>
> ideally, it would be nice to get that behavior for free in X<br>
> implementations, too... seems to be what VTK devs expect.<br>
> So, I may have to put back some of the tcl-specific X code that used to be<br>
> there before my commit last Thursday. I spent Friday in a fruitless attempt<br>
> at getting the interaction to work with just X stuff from our tcl/tk app.<br>
> Maybe somebody out there can give me a hint about whether this is really<br>
> possible or not...? Maybe I'm just wasting my time trying to minimize the<br>
> code required.... going back to using Tk_DoOneEvent and tcl timers may be<br>
> the right way to go after all.<br>
> At least there is now one common implementation for handling the actual X<br>
> events, though. At least that part of my cleanup effort will survive. I will<br>
> reply again with final results when I have them.<br>
> Thanks for your patience, and feel free to send along any helpful hints.<br>
><br>
><br>
> David Cole<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Andrew Maclean <<a href="mailto:andrew.amaclean@gmail.com">andrew.amaclean@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Bill, I think David is looking further into it.<br>
>> I think it still needs some more work. I tried it in the weekend and<br>
>> there was no interaction at all (mouse and keyboard).<br>
>> Regards<br>
>> Andrew<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Bill Lorensen <<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > David,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Is this ready for the VTK-5-2 branch?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Bill<br>
>> ><br>
>> > 2008/8/14 David Cole <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>>:<br>
>> >> Fixed in CVS HEAD by making vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor a trivial<br>
>> >> subclass<br>
>> >> of vtkXRenderWindowInteractor:<br>
>> >> /cvsroot/VTK/VTK/Graphics/Testing/Tcl/TestFillHolesFilter.tcl,v <--<br>
>> >> Graphics/Testing/Tcl/TestFillHolesFilter.tcl<br>
>> >> new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2<br>
>> >> /cvsroot/VTK/VTK/Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowInteractor.cxx,v <--<br>
>> >> Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowInteractor.cxx<br>
>> >> new revision: 1.136; previous revision: 1.135<br>
>> >> /cvsroot/VTK/VTK/Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowInteractor.h,v <--<br>
>> >> Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowInteractor.h<br>
>> >> new revision: 1.75; previous revision: 1.74<br>
>> >> /cvsroot/VTK/VTK/Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor.cxx,v <--<br>
>> >> Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor.cxx<br>
>> >> new revision: 1.54; previous revision: 1.53<br>
>> >> /cvsroot/VTK/VTK/Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor.h,v <--<br>
>> >> Rendering/vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor.h<br>
>> >> new revision: 1.26; previous revision: 1.25<br>
>> >> I will merge this to the VTK-5-2 branch after a clean night on the<br>
>> >> dashboards and then mark this issue as resolved...<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Thanks,<br>
>> >> David Cole<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:19 PM, David Cole <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>><br>
>> >> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I will try to get this one fixed tomorrow.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Would anybody object to re-factoring the vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor<br>
>> >>> class (re-parent it from vtkXRenderWindowInteractor) such that it<br>
>> >>> inherits<br>
>> >>> its common functionality and then has just overrides that are specific<br>
>> >>> to<br>
>> >>> Tcl/Tk...?<br>
>> >>> I don't think it should break backwards compatibility for most people,<br>
>> >>> although I could certainly imagine a class derived from it that may<br>
>> >>> squawk<br>
>> >>> for one reason or another by having its parent chain changed...<br>
>> >>> I think the intent of both classes was to have the same code except<br>
>> >>> for<br>
>> >>> the differences due to making tcl calls from the TclInteractor method<br>
>> >>> implementations. However, over time, they have diverged and had<br>
>> >>> different<br>
>> >>> bug fixes applied to one that should have been applied to both.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Is the fix for this bug simply to re-inherit<br>
>> >>> vtkXRenderWindowTclInteractor<br>
>> >>> or would that upset any of you....??<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Thanks for any feedback,<br>
>> >>> David Cole<br>
>> >>> Kitware, Inc.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Peter Wainwright<br>
>> >>> <<a href="mailto:prw@ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk">prw@ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> On all recent CVS versions of VTK, I have been unable to run this<br>
>> >>>> example<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> <a href="http://www.ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk/vtktut6.tcl" target="_blank">http://www.ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk/vtktut6.tcl</a><br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> Its just a simple use of vtkRenderWindowInteractor. But when I click<br>
>> >>>> in<br>
>> >>>> the window I am unable to rotate the model and I get the error<br>
>> >>>> message:<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> ERROR: In<br>
>> >>>> /home/prw/src/VTK-20080806/Rendering/vtkInteractorStyle.cxx,<br>
>> >>>> line 392<br>
>> >>>> vtkInteractorStyleJoystickCamera (0x9543c0): Timer start failed<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> This seems to relate to the bug<br>
>> >>>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=3164" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=3164</a>,<br>
>> >>>> which apparently has not been touched for almost 2 years. It seems<br>
>> >>>> to<br>
>> >>>> affect the X11 implementation only. Is anyone working on this?<br>
>> >>>><br>
>> >>>> Peter Wainwright<br>
>> >>>><br>
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