[Insight-users] Using itk with tcl

[Gaetan Lehmann]

Hi Brian,

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:01:10 +0200, Brian Chacko <brianchacko at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Dear Gaetan,
>   This is a exactly what i have done.
>   1. I downloaded "CableSwig-ITK-2.8.1.zip" from the itk download page
>   2. As you had said to unzip the contents in the "Utilities/CableSwig/  
> ". There wasn't a default folder CableSwig in the Utilities directory.  
> So i directly unzipped it creating a new folder CableSwig-ITK-2.8.1 with  
> a sub-folder CableSwig-ITK-2.8.0.
>   3. I tried to build ITK again with the option ITK_CSWIG_TCL set to ON.  
> It was asking to set the Cable Swig directoy in "CableSwig_DIR" option.  
> So i set the directoy to the subfolder CableSwig-ITK-2.8.0. I tried to  
> configure but it gave an error stating that the i needed to set the  
> directory to one containing CableSwigConfig.cmake file.
>   4.I made a new folder CableSwig under the utilities directory and then  
> re-unzipped the CableSwig-ITK-2.8.1. and then tried to configure again  
> with the Cable Swig directory option in CMAKE set to  
> c:/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/Utilities/CableSwig. It configured fine.

yes, sorry, it wasn't clear enough. cableswig must be unzipped and the
directory renamed to CableSwig, so the file  CableSwigConfig.cmake is in
Utilities/CableSwig/

>  Errors have come which i have attached in this mail in 2 files. I am  
> not able to proceed from this step.

cmake can't find your tcl/tk installation. You just have to fill the
fields indicated in the error message with the right paths :-)

Gaetan

>  Regards
>   Brian
>
> Gaetan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> Ok
>
> You need to have cableswig. The simplest way to go is download it for the
> ITK download page and to uncompress it to the Utilities/CableSwig/
> directory of you ITK source tree. It will be built with ITK if you put it
> here
> To build tcl support, turn ITK_CSWIG_TCL to ON in your ITK build dir with
> cmake. This option should be visible only in advanced mode.
> Finally, build ITK, install it, and it should be ok :-)
>
> Note that lots of classes are not wrapped with the current wrappers. A
> more complete wrapper is available in ITK cvs, but it seem that there is
> some problems with the old versions of msvc, like the one you are using  
> :-/
>
> Please let us know if you still have some problems
>
> Gaetan
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:38:41 +0200, Brian Chacko
>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Gaetan,
>> I am using Microsoft Windows XP (Professional x64 Edition). The
>> compiler is Microsoft VC++ 6.0.
>> ITK,cmake, Tcl and VTK are ITK 2.8.1, CMake 2.4, tcl 8.4.13 and VTK
>> 5.0. (I haven't mentioned about VTK earlier).
>> The thing is i am confused in the preliminary step . What should i do
>> to get a simple tcl script using ITK running. What i have currently done
>> is build itk and written programs in *.cxx.I have tried out the examples
>> (*.cxx) and am able to view results using VTK.
>> I understand Cable Swig is needed for this purpose, but i don't
>> understand how.
>> My main aim is to create a medical application using itk, vtk either
>> reading Dicom files in ITK and view them in VTK. For this purpose i was
>> looking for a tool kit to implement the application GUI. Tk looked fine
>> for this purpose.
>> But i need to re-write the default examples (.cxx) in ITK as tcl
>> scripts and don't know how to.
>> Regards
>> Brian
>> Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> We'll have to get a more precise description of your problem to be able
>> to
>> help !
>>
>> Which OS are you using ?
>> Which compiler ?
>> Which version of ITK ?
>> Which version of cmake ?
>> Which version of cableswig ?
>> Which version of tcl ?
>>
>> Do you get the error when building itk with tcl wrappers ?
>> When installing itk with tcl wrappers ?
>> When loading tcl wrappers ?
>> When running a particular method ?
>>
>> And an error message would also be great :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gaetan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:47:39 +0200, Brian Chacko
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>> I am facing a starting problem in using itk with tcl/tk scripting.
>>> Could someone tell me what should be done to use itk with tcl/tk.
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
>



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Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
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