[vtkusers] deriving my own class from vtkActor

[Malcolm Drummond]

Hi Steffen

Try casting to your type of actor - the actor collection contains pointers
to type vtkActor.

Malcolm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steffen Oeltze" <Steffen.Oeltze at Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
To: "VTK users" <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: [vtkusers] deriving my own class from vtkActor


> Dear VTK-users,
>
> I have derived my own class from vtkActor and I have added a couple of
> methods to this new class.
> After creating and modifying such a new actor I add it to my existing
> renderer. At some point I use
> vtkRenderer->GetActors() to retrieve my custom actors. Then, I would
> like to traverse the returned
> list and apply a custom method to each of my selfmade actors. However, I
> get the error:
>
> > 'method' : is not an element of 'vtkActor'
>
> I guess this is a problem of backward compatibility but I don't know how
> to solve it. Can anybody help me ?
>
> Steffen
>
>
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