Is there a method cross reference? (fwd)

[M.Schrijver at el.utwente.nl]

Hello, Tom,

no, you're not a pest ;-)  I have only a few month Vtk experience, but
I'm always happy to help people whenever I can. 

The problem you are describing is not so much a problem of redirecting
the output to stdout, but as to what stdout actually is. I'm not sure
what OS you are using, but with Windows, there effectively is no stdout
when you double click a .tcl file. When you are using a console (Unix or
Windows) to start the Tcl script, there is stdout (the console), but you
normally will not get a chance to interrupt the normal program loop
(specifically the message loop), and thus you cannot enter those
commands. Only when the program terminates, you receive control .......

So, I see only two options: a) embed the commands inside the script, or
b) use the interacter window as you described.

Succes, Marc

ir. Marc Schrijver
Faculty of Electrical Engineering (S&S NT)
University of Twente
The Netherlands

> ----------
> From: 	Tom G. Smith[SMTP:smitty at kcc.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, October 08, 1999 6:09 PM
> To: 	M.Schrijver at el.utwente.nl
> Cc: 	vtkusers at gsao.med.ge.com
> Subject: 	Re: Is there a method cross reference? (fwd)
> 
> Thanks for the explanation of ListMethod.  I've now penciled 
> "ListMethods, page 461" in the margins of the index to "The
> Visualization
> Toolkit."  Writing a good index is the hardest part of finishing any
> book, a discipline in its own right.
> 
> I hope I'm not being a pest, but I still have a question about output.
> In Tcl, is there a way of directing the output of statements 2 and 3
> in the following code snippet to stdout?  
> 
> 1  vtkPolyVertex cells ;# Declare cells to be instance of PolyVertex.
> 2  cells ListMethods
> 3  cells Print
> 
> The only way I can see the output of such statements is to invoke
> vtk with e.g. "vtk sample.tcl," press "u" in the rendered window and
> manually enter them on the interactor command line.  Then the output
> only shows in the interactor window.
> 
> 


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