[vtk-developers] vtkVectorText -- to deprecate or not?

[David Lonie]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> The vtkAxisActor is the only code that I can see that would be high
> priority for switching over to vtkTextActor3D.   The only other
> classes that use vtkVectorText are vtkAnnotatedCubeActor, which
> should probably continue to use vtkVectorText, and a few widgets:

Indeed -- my biggest concern in VTK is AxisActor, and in ParaView the
default "3D Text" source is using VectorText.

> The changes to the widgets should be OK'd by whoever is
> using/maintaining those widgets.
>
> Deprecating vtkVectorText would be going too far, because it does
> something unique and useful, as noted by Bill.

These are my thoughts as well, although I like David Thompson's idea
of replacing it with a more modern version, too (more coming...).

Dave