[vtk-developers] vtkTextActor rotation

[Bill Lorensen]

+1


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:10 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
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>>> 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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