[vtkusers] vtkScalarBarActor & Disappearing actors.

[Charl P. Botha]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:05, Ron Inbar wrote:
> > > 1. True, I shared both actors and textures.  That's because I wanted to
> > see
> > > exactly the same view from two different viewpoints.  If I split the
> > > pipeline I would need to send every change to each actor separately.
> > 
> > Really?  Did you make use of explicit actor interaction?  By default,
> > only the camera is moved and since you WANTED to see the same object
> > from different angles, splitting your pipelines before the mappers
> > should not have been a problem.  Obviously, if you really were
> > interacting with the separate actors as well as moving the camera,
> > you're right.
> 
> I didn't interact with each actor separately, but I had two different
> textures and I needed to change the texture for both actors simultaneously.
> Being able to use the same actor in both windows simplified things a lot.

Well, if I were actually that pedantic, I could say that it did NOT
simplify things as you had to hack new functionality into VTK to make it
work. ;)

Regards,
Charl

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