[Paraview] New Mac Installation

[Joe Koski]

Berk, Mike,

I have no problems running under X11, so this is not a problem to me. I
suspect the difficulty is getting Motif to work under Cocoa or Carbon.

I was able to get my first image from .vtk files, so we're in business with
ParaView. Thanks for the help and explanations.

Joe


on 1/25/06 8:38 AM, Berk Geveci at berk.geveci at gmail.com wrote:

> We have tried paraview with Tcl/Tk that supports Cocoa (and Carbon).
> We ran into issues that seemed to be due to incomplete support of
> Cocoa (and Carbon) by Tk. Since paraview works with X-based Tk, we
> have no immediate plans to change anything. We have longer term plans
> to provide better support for Mac.
> 
> -Berk
> 
> 
> On 1/25/06, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:58 PM, Joe Koski wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm a Sandia retiree and consultant. I was just given the website by a
>>> Sandia staff member about an hour ago, and I'm trying to install
>>> paraview on
>>> my Mac G5 with OS X 10.3.9 and Xcode 1.5. The code we use
>>> recognizes .vtk
>>> files, so we thought we'd give it a try.
>>> 
>>> I think I have extracted paraview correctly, which took some
>>> understanding
>>> of the .tar file structure. A suggestion would be to set up
>>> the .tar to
>>> extract directly with a "tar -xvf paraview.tar -C /usr/local"
>>> instead of
>>> having the intermediate directory that you have now. I had to make
>>> my own
>>> tar of the four directories (bin, lib, doc, share) before it would
>>> extract
>>> correctly into /usr/local.
>>> 
>>> Now, when I launch paraview I get
>>> 
>>> jakoski$ paraview
>>> ParaView error: InitializeTcl failed
>>> Tk_Init error: this isn't a Tk application couldn't connect to display
>>> ":0.0"
>>> 
>>> OK, I think I have an older version of Tk/Tcl already installed. Do
>>> I need
>>> another version, or do I just need a new line in my .bash_profile or
>>> .bashrc? I suspect that I have a missing dependency.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>> 
>>> Joe Koski
>> 
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>> Are you launching paraview from an "x-term"? Paraview (Last time I
>> checked) only runs under X-Windows on OS X. Kitware doesn't seem to
>> want to support the newer versions of Tk/Tcl that run under Aqua.
>> 
>> --------
>> Mike Jackson
>> imikejackson <at> gmail <dot> com
>> 
>> 
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