Just spent some time grepping around my SVN clone for MGED GUI menu strings, and found: src/tclscripts/mged/openw.tcl not sure how (does C call Tcl, or Tcl call C?) it ties with: src/mged/
but after Googling "brlcad tcl gui" I got a few good hits: http://nikit.tcl.tk/page/BRL-CAD http://brlcad.org/wiki/Convert_MGED_from_Tk_to_Qt the last one has a lot of good pointers, I have done some basic playing around with pyQT in the past, but mostly have worked with wxPython and Tk is easy enough in Python too. I'll take a look at the Tcl scripts and qged too... maybe I can figure out how to add in a scripting/text console and some buttons for click and drag-n-drop shape creation... On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote: > so I really want to make a nice GUI to control some aspects of my > parametric Python scripting for BRL-CAD... but I am not sure how to > approach it > https://github.com/nmz787/python-brlcad-tcl > > basically I want the GUI for 2 things: > * controls to create new segments of Python code (i.e. for a sphere > or other primitives) > * view/refresh the Python-generated BRLCAD database objects > * control the elements on-screen, rotate, zoom, hide certain objects > > currently my hack is to use mged to produce a png... then display that > png file in a GUI image widget in Python/tkinter... but obviously I > could probably /somehow/ use the actual C++ GUI stuff BRL-CAD already > has > > I'm just not sure where the path of least resistance is... I can code > in C/C++ (and do so for work) but I really am much much more > productive in Python.... so I'd like to keep as much of the GUI view > stuff in Python as possible, since it's obviously less important than > the actual critical rendering code, and people will want to customize > the GUI much much more than the backend. > > But yeah, my PNG file hack is pretty slow to i.e. rotate a part > on-screen... not intolerable, but it reminds me of scenes from movies > from the 1980s where they are doing CAD on some ancient PC > > > Any ideas/advice/pointers/guidance would be appreciated, > thanks, > -Nathan -- -Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list brlcad-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
