I have now compiled and linked the old Borland VTK 5 component against VTK 9.3.
BTW perhaps “Borland” should be replaced with “VCL” instead of “Embarcadero”. I will determine this with others. Any suggestions?
That has worked so far.
The component can be installed and used in a C++Builder Win64x application.
There is still a problem at the moment, probably with the initialization.
I use these lines:
#include <vtkAutoInit.h>
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingOpenGL2);
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkInteractionStyle);
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingFreeType);
They were enough for the component to work with VTK 7.1.
Now the call
vtkVCLRenderWindow->GetRenderWindow();
fails and works on the second call.
After the second call I can use GetRenderWindow() or GetRenderer() without any problems.
Also this works:
Renderer1 = vtkVCLRenderWindow->GetRenderer();
Renderer1->SetBackground(rgb);
If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful.
At the moment I think something is not initialized.
I have to try to debug this.
Nevertheless I will now try to build a larger project using VTK extensively with the new compiler bcc64x and VTK 9.3. More on that soon.