Following my message is an old message from the vtkusers mailing list, describing how to use gtkmm to get the VTK RenderWindow to live inside a GTK window AND be able to put other GTK Widgets in the same window.
I would like to port this to straight C (instead of C++) and GTK+ (instead of gtkmm) and am quite lost as to how do do it for the current stable version of GTK+ (2.6.9). Since my platform is Windows, I can't use GtkPlug and GtkSocket because those are only available in the 2.7.x (development) release of GTK+. This is further complicated by the fact that I can't find where GDK_WINDOW_HWND is defined. Has anyone done this before? I would like to do this in C, not in Python or Tcl/Tk -- I've already read about PyGTK but I don't want to learn Python or Tcl/Tk or make end users of my shiny new application install them. Thanks, Mike Day Virtual Targets Center https://modelexchange.army.mil/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I'm using using VTK and GTK for a long time now and it works very well. To be able to display a VTK window in a Gtk widget, you need to use an OpenGL widget. There are two OpenGL libraries for Gtk : GtkGLArea and GtkGLExt. I recommend the second since itis actively maintenained and seems to be superior as it allows any GtkWidget to contains an OpenGL window. To render a VTK window in a GLWidget, you only need to specify the Gtk window Id to the VTK RenderWindow before calling Render(). Here is the C++ code to do that, it should be easy to change it to pure C. Suppose that "this" is the Gtk GL Widget and pay attention to the "WINDOW_HWND" (Win32) or "WINDOW_XWINDOW" (Linux, ...). #ifdef WIN32 this->RenderWindow->SetWindowId((void*)GDK_WINDOW_HWND(this->get_window()->gobj())); #else //Attach VTK Renderer to current OpenGL Window this->RenderWindow->SetWindowId((void*)GDK_WINDOW_XWINDOW(this->get_window()->gobj())); #endif this->RenderWindow->SetSize(this->get_width(), this->get_height()); Once you have linked you VTK render Windows, you can pack you Gtk GL Widget like any other Gtk object. Don't forget to call RenderWindow->Render() only after you have packed and showed your Gtk widget, else another window will be created ! Vincent Nicolas ----------------------------------------- Communications and Remote Sensing Lab. Universite catholique de Louvain vincent.nicolas at tele.ucl.ac.be +32 (0)10 478555 http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:35:22 +0530 "shrinivas kulkarni" <kshrinivas at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to draw a VTK window inside a GTK window( I can do this easily), but > apart from this, the in same GTK window I want to place few buttons. I think > GTK does not allow to do this, because VTK needs a window ID/HANDLE to > decide, in which window it needs to be displayed and in GTK we can get such > handle only for top level window. > > Has anybody created UI like this( VTK in GTK with buttons in it)? Note that > I am working on Windows platform. So if anybody have idea/suggestion how to > do this would be really helpful. > > Thanks > Shrinivas > > _________________________________________________________________ > It is Ms World time! Send in your wishes to Ami Vashi. > http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/Missworld2003/ Help her bring home the crown! > > _______________________________________________ > This is the private VTK discussion list. > Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: > <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous message: [vtkusers] Using vtk with GTK Next message: [vtkusers] Using vtk with GTK Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information about the vtkusers mailing list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
