[vtkusers] MangledMesa & VTK

[Wylie, Brian]

All,
 
Actually I have two questions...
 
1) In what circumstance would anyone want to use MangledMesa?  (I'm not
being a smartly pants, I really don't know.... we have dozens of
deployments at Sandia and we've never used it... ever....)
2) If the answer to 1 is some small special case should the
functionality be made available in some other way, and should VTK
depreciate the use of Mangled Mesa altogether?

  Brian Wylie - Org 1424
  Sandia National Laboratories
  MS 0822 - Building 880/A1-J
  (505)844-2238 FAX(505)845-0833                      



 


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	From: vtkusers-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at vtk.org
[mailto:vtkusers-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at vtk.org] On Behalf Of
Randall Hand
	Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:16 AM
	To: VTK Users
	Subject: [vtkusers] MangledMesa & VTK
	
	
	I've been using MangledMesa with VTK (5.0.1) for quite a while
now with pretty good success, but I ran into an issue where I couldn't
get vtkTextActor's to display in the resulting displays at all.
	
	So I upgraded to a newer VTK hoping this was fixed (Paraview-2-6
branch) and recompiled everything.  Now my resulting renderings are
completely blank.  I did have some issues with getting it to compile as
it seems a few of the files in the Rendering directory have desynced
between the vtkMesa* and vtkOpenGL* versions.  I manually resynced them
(Just had to copy some function definitions in the .h files over) and it
compiled. 
	
	So my question is a 2 parter:
	1) Anyone know how to get TextActors to work with the 5.0.1 VTK?
Was there a known bug around that time that's been fixed, or is there
some new option that must be enabled to get it to work? 
	2) How to I get MangledMEsa to work in the newer VTK releases?
Right now i'm getting either blank or random-garbage displays.
	
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	Randall Hand
	Visualization Scientist
	ERDC MSRC-ITL 

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