[vtk-developers] Removal of vtkMathTextActor class?

[David Lonie]

Hi list,

When the MathText equation rendering code went in, I had written a
subclass of vtkTextActor called vtkMathTextActor, which would render
text using matplotlib if available, or freetype otherwise. Now most of
the text rendering in VTK will switch between MathText or FreeType
automatically. This includes the output of vtkTextActor, making the
MathTextActor unneeded.

Since the MathTextActor is new API since the last release, I'd like to
remove it before 6.0, especially since it offers no advantage to the
regular TextActor. The last usage of this class by VTK has just been
refactored to use TextActors -- is anyone using these classes
(MathTextActor and MathTextActor3D) outside of VTK? I will be removing
it in the next couple of days unless anyone objects.

Dave