> On 06 Sep 2014, at 23:56, Clifford Yapp <cliffy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Vlad Bogolin <vladbogo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 3. Some bad news regarding the Qt display manager: the QWindow::fromId >> function used to embed Qt in Tk fails, so basically the embedded window >> fails to be created. I don’t know why this happens and what should be done >> to solve the problem. > > Hmm. I'm assuming that embedding this in a Qt window would be a lot > simpler? (I.e., using Tk is what's causing a lot of the > complications?)
I assume that the QWindow::fromId assumes that the Tk window is a native OS X window (not an X11 one) and that’s why the call fails. But, as you said the best solution would be to have a Qt only display manager. > > If that's the case, we're looking longer term to switch from Tk to Qt > for our GUIs. Given that, I'd hate to see you spend a tremendous > amount of effort embedding Tk in Qt to make what will ultimately be a > temporary situation work (Sean may have a different opinion here, but > personally I'd rather not put any more investment into Tk > integration/support than we have to...) My suggestion would be to > either a) go with the setup that is working now and take a stab at the > polygon drawing with an eye towards having that feature available when > we do switch to Qt, or b) look at what would be involved with making a > version of the simple classic-mode MGED that uses Qt for its windows. > > Option b might be a bit off the dm/fb focus you've had so far and > would probably be disruptive enough that it should be tackled in a > branch, but your Qt background and work you've done getting things > going in MGED puts you in a very good position to have a go at it and > such work would feed directly into the direction we're hoping to head > with MGED/Archer/gen3 gui in the future. I'm thinking the starting > point would be to get > > ./bin/mged -c -a qt > > to work without needing Tk for anything. Once that was working, we > could gradually build towards the menu and console version of MGED and > from there Mt. Everest... er, Archer. > > But, of course, the question comes down to - what interests you, and > what would you like to work on? > The option b sounds really interesting to me so I will focus in the next days on finding out more details and start making a plan. Cheers, Vlad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
