Bug#334368: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#334368: VTK viewer from octaviz does not resize sanely

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

* Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> [2005-10-17 10:17]:

> Package: octaviz
> Version: 0.4.0-10
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> This is perhaps a vtk bug, but I am unable to file it intelligibly
> against vtk.
> 
> In octave, execute one of the octaviz demos, say
> 
>     octave:1> ClipCow
> 
> Resize the resulting window to be larger than the displayed figure, a
> factor of three seems to be adequate.  The window then starts resizing
> itself and flashing with repaints.  The only way I have found to
> interact with anything else is to iconize the window, which seems to
> stop the viewer process.

Could you please try to install the vtk-examples package and run under
your sawfish session the example:

    /usr/share/vtk/VisualizationAlgorithms/Python/ClipCow.py

If this fails in the same way, the odds are high that the problem comes
from vtk and not octaviz.

Thanks,

-- 
Rafael