[vtk-developers] vtkTextActor rotation

David Lonie david.lonie at kitware.com
Thu Oct 9 11:10:12 EDT 2014


That's what I wanted to hear :-D I'll start the patch.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:04 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>> My crystal ball says we will start the next release in January and my
>> vote is quality over compatibility in this case.
>>
> +1
>
>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:45 AM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would say the text should look good and be legible when it's
>>>> rendered...
>>>>
>>>> Would anybody here really prefer perfect backwards compatibility
>>>> (including text illegibility) over better visualization...?
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree, and hope most others would, too! Besides legibility, position
>>> is the issue that could affect developers -- if anyone is using
>>> vtkTextProperty::SetOrientation to rotate their text, my changes will push
>>> the text around into a new location, easily breaking their code...
>>>
>>> I've had to add switches to filters that preserve buggy/"legacy"
>>> behavior by default, so I like to check these things before making such
>>> changes -- and more importantly, this leaves a breadcrumb in the archive
>>> for people trying to figure out why their code broke! ;-)
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
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